Blog 6: Impulse and Momentum

Baseball is a game that involves a ton of physics.  The science behind hitting, throwing, catching, and running, the basics of baseball, can all be explained via physics.  Hitting, especially, involves topics such as impulse and momentum.  Impulse is the force two objects exert on one another when they collide.  When a baseball hits a bat, for instance, there is impulse.  Impulse is equal to the change in momentum or the amount of force times the amount of time the two objects are in contact.  Let's say the ball and bat collide with a force of ten newtons and they are in contact for 1 second (a very long time), the resulting impulse would be ten Ns.  Impulse is very important in regards to hitting.