Getting the Swing of Surface Gravity

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2012-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/1202.0794v1

The Physics Teacher, Vol. 50, April 2012, p. 227-228

Physics

Physics Education

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Sports are a popular and effective way to illustrate physics principles. Baseball in particular presents a number of opportunities to motivate student interest and teach concepts. Several articles have appeared in this journal on this topic, illustrating a wide variety of areas of physics. In addition, several websites and an entire book are available. In this paper we describe a student-designed project that illustrates the relative surface gravity on the Earth, Sun and other solar-system bodies using baseball. We describe the project and its results here as an example of a simple, fun, and student-driven use of baseball to illustrate an important physics principle.

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