Motion of a Baseball

A Baseball can travel so fast, it can be thrown from different angles, different ways. I doesn’t really matter what way you throw it, it will move. Nowadays, pitchers can throw as fast as 100 mph, matter fact the fastest pitch ever recorded by a major league pitcher, 102 mph is the fastest pitch thrown in the history of baseball, but, there is more behind this than just throwing the ball. You need to know how to throw the ball, practice your mechanics repeatedly, and understand how the laws of gravity, and motion affect the velocity, direction, and movement of a baseball.

The motion of a baseball its affected by air pressure, cold and hot air, humidity, and grips that the person throwing it would use to affect the rotation of the ball. When the ball is in the air is rotating, since there is resistance in the air, the ball will be forced to go down, and lose altitude, and velocity. A lot of people get confused over the fact that a ball gains power or speed, however, it is confirmed that a baseball that is in movement its always going down, and it losing velocity.

When a baseball is thrown with different grips, it will affect how fast it will go, will affect the direction, and how much will the pitch breaks. There are different types of grips, for example: curve ball, two seam, fast ball, sinker, fork ball, etc. This grips will make a impact with the rotation of the ball, and with the air.

Reference: http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211_fall2004.web.dir/kenneth_sweet/motion.html