Robert Kemp Adair
Autore di The Physics of Baseball
Sull'Autore
Robert K. Adair is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University.
Opere di Robert Kemp Adair
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1924
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Wisconsin (PhD | Nuclear Physics)
- Attività lavorative
- physicist
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Bronze Star
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 548
- Popolarità
- #45,524
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 12
https://thebeerthrillers.com/2021/04/24/book-review-the-physics-of-baseball-robe...
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"...The other segments were interesting as well. The flight of the ball was impressive, and is kind of funny in retrospect how he mentions if they ever play in Denver that they would have to change the balls they use. (Spoiler alert – the Colorado Rockies were founded in 1991, and they do not change the balls when playing there.)
The last segment about properties of bats is also interesting, especially as it discusses the various ways of cheating and tampering with bats. He claims (through his equations and physics) that corking bats actually doesn’t provide any benefits to the player and that there is no real benefit to cheating this way. He mentions several other ways in the past they cheated – hammering nails into the bat, cutting the bats, slicing the bats, different things other than corking, etc."… (altro)