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"Did
Sammy Sosa Take Physics 101?"
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When I woke up the morning of June 4, 2003, I was deluged with phone calls from reporters wanting to know whether the use of a "corked" bat gave the great Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa any advantage. So I asked myself: How would a physicist go about trying to answer such a question? My answer to this question provides much of the context for this talk. My approach is one quite familiar to physicists: create a simplified model, constrain that model with both fundamental physics and experimental data, then use the model to predict. Come to the talk and find out whether Sammy had an advantage and whether it is likely he took Physics 101. Here is some related information on The Physics of Baseball. |
