Experimental determination of baseball spin and lift. Alaways, L. W. & Hubbard, M. Journal of Sports Sciences, 19(5):349–358, January, 2001. Citation Key Alias: Alaways2001a
Paper doi abstract bibtex The aim of this study was to develop a new method for the determination of lift on spinning baseballs. Inertial trajectories of (a) ball surface markers during the ® rst metre of ¯ ight and (b) the centre of mass trajectory near home-plate were measured in a pitch using high-speed video. A theoretical model was developed, incorporating aerodynamic Magnus-Robins lift, drag and cross forces, which predicts the centre of mass and marker trajectories. Parameters including initial conditions and aerodynamic coeý cients were estimated iteratively by minimizing the error between predicted and measured trajectories. We compare the resulting lift coeý cients and spin parameter values with those of previous studies. Lift on four-seam pitches can be as much as three times that of two-seam pitches, although this disparity is reduced for spin parameters greater than 0.4.
@article{alaways_experimental_2001,
title = {Experimental determination of baseball spin and lift},
volume = {19},
issn = {0264-0414, 1466-447X},
url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02640410152006126},
doi = {10.1080/02640410152006126},
abstract = {The aim of this study was to develop a new method for the determination of lift on spinning baseballs. Inertial trajectories of (a) ball surface markers during the ® rst metre of ¯ ight and (b) the centre of mass trajectory near home-plate were measured in a pitch using high-speed video. A theoretical model was developed, incorporating aerodynamic Magnus-Robins lift, drag and cross forces, which predicts the centre of mass and marker trajectories. Parameters including initial conditions and aerodynamic coeý cients were estimated iteratively by minimizing the error between predicted and measured trajectories. We compare the resulting lift coeý cients and spin parameter values with those of previous studies. Lift on four-seam pitches can be as much as three times that of two-seam pitches, although this disparity is reduced for spin parameters greater than 0.4.},
language = {en},
number = {5},
urldate = {2019-07-26},
journal = {Journal of Sports Sciences},
author = {Alaways, Leroy W. and Hubbard, Mont},
month = jan,
year = {2001},
note = {Citation Key Alias: Alaways2001a},
pages = {349--358}
}
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