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Contract Of An Experiment On Wooden Baseball Bats

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PACE TECHNICAL PAPER ROUGH DRAFT This experiment was conducted in an attempt to have wooden baseball bats brought back to NCAA and high school and children’s leagues, too. The experiment idea was to set up a pendulum where the bat swung down and hit the ball in the same spot every time. Then I measured where the ball hit the ground. All three of the bats I tested had about an average 10” range, so they were all very close together. None of the bats hit the ball much farther than the others, the farthest ball hit was 107” and the shortest ball hit was 91”. Which bat will hit the ball the farthest with the same speed, angle, and spot every time? Each bat that I used was different, although the differences were subtle. What is BBCOR? BBCOR stands for Batted Ball Coefficient of Restitution (Steve the Ump). This means that when you hit the ball, it makes the batted ball five miles per hour more than a wood bat. This five miles per hour causes the ball to go an extra 5 to 20 feet (Prior …show more content…

The twine had to be tied to the hooks in the ceiling and the bat was tied also. The batting tee had to be in the right location so the bat could hit the ball every time. Everything had to surround in duct tape so it could be put in the right position each time. A few test runs were conducted to see if the bat hit the ball in the same spot every time (used a slow-motion video with and iPhone). After all this was done, the trials finally begun to test all three bats. The intention was to hit the ball with each bat 10 times. The methods chosen were not very complicated, but very painstaking to set up and go every time. The bat had to be measured to make sure the knob (the end of the handle) was 59” high and the end of the barrel was 61” high unless the results were not as accurate. Also, the setup used was one of the only ways to attempt the experiment, it was likely the most common way to conduct a bat/ball

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