In my web searching today, I came across the article that I have linked to below. Read through the article and then read the rest of the blog.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/physics/how-the-105-mph-fastball-tests-the-limits-of-the-human-body
Surprising information isn't it?! There are a few things in the article I want to discuss. First of all, why can't people throw much faster than 100mph? What impact does throwing extreme fastballs have on the body? How does faster pitching impact batting? Do you think the attempts to be the fastest pitcher in baseball are really worth it? Do the benefits or notoriety outweigh the consequences on the body? And of course, how does this article relate to our motion unit? Post your comments in the comment area and please make sure you say which class you are in.
People can't throw much faster because after about onehundred miles per hour the ligaments in the arm can't handle much more pressure. When you throw a rele fast pitch it is the equivalent of putting a 60 pound weight on your arm throughout the entire motion of the pitch. Faster pistching does not affecty a batter much all. It simply gives the batter less time to react to the pitch. I do not think that fast pitching is worth it because it burns out pitchers and what is truly important is the accuracy of the pitch as opposed to velocity. I believe that if you are a proffesional pitcher the risks do outweigh the consequences because it is your job to throw well and you are paid and compensated for any injury you may sustain. This relates to the motion unit because it discusses the velocity of the pitch that is being thrown and the calculations involving instantaneous speed.
ReplyDeletePatM. 7-8A
ReplyDeleteYou can't really throw faster than 100mph because the arm can't handle all that speed. The impact of throwing fast balls on the body are that the arm swings fast which puts a lot pressure on it which can be bad. Are the attepmts to be the fastest pitcher worth it? Well that depends on the person but I don't think its worth it because you can do damage to your arm and your body. You can really injure yourself fora long time which could even end your baseball career. The benefits are not worth it because after that your baseball career could be done and that you'll never play again. This relates to our unit because it has to do with motion and the way your body is effected from it.
You cant throw faster then 100 mph because the muscles in your arm cant handle it. It can be very stressful on the body throwing that hard. It also puts a lot of strain on your muscles. I think that throwing faster to the batter makes a difference. I think that because they have a harder time seeing where it is and timing it. Also hitting the ball at that speed probably hurts your arms and they might not be able to aim it as well. I also think that it is worth it because you get to make the moneys. It can go to far though. If you start having problems from it then he can stop pitching. I think that this has to do with the motion unit because of the speed of the ball and the velocity of it.
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ReplyDeleteYou can't throw faster than 100 mph because your arm can't handle it . You can tare a ligament in your elbow. Faster pitching impacts batting by giving the batter less time to react.The speed is measured from were the pitcher releases the ball, the pitch loses about 10% of its speed because of air resistance.I don't think its worth it to try to be the fastest pitcher because you can really hurt your elbow. There are more consequeces when you get hurt than benefits from being the fastest pitcher. This article relates to the motion unit because it talks about velosity and speed.
You cant throw faster then 100mph because your arm is not able to handle it. Really the only benifits of being able to pitch so fast is maybe stikeing out a few batters because they cant react too the pitch as fast as it is coming at them. I personally belief trying to beat the world recorded of fast pitching is foolish, because i dont think have your name know for a outstanding pitch is worth all the permit damage you can do to yourself. This is obviously realted to our unit because it shows how motion affects the body.
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Pitchers can not throw fast than 100mph because the amount of torque on the elbow jount. If you were too go any fast you would destroy ur elbow.
I do not think that it is worth the risk in injury to the body just for one or two pitches at that speed.This article relates to the motion chapter becuase this contiouns motion on the body will damge your body also how the impact of the bat and speed dosent realy change the distace very much. The amount of time it takes to get from the mound to home base.
Adam D.
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People cannot throw more than 100mph because science shows that it is the "ceiling" to a pitcher's velocity. The ligaments in the arm are already being pushed to their limits enough. As described in the article, the stress on the arm is equivelent to putting a 60 pound weight on the arm in that cocked position. The impact of pitching, from the batter's perspective, affects the batter only with the timing. They will have a lesser reaction time which obviously makes it more of a challenge to hit the ball. If anything, the faster the pitch, the more the benefit to the batter because if contact is made, the ball will potentionally go harder and farther into the field. I think that attempts to be the fastest pitcher are worth it ONLY if that is one's goal. But keep in mind that there is a ceiling or limit to how fast one can pitch so really you can't go over 100mph. But it may not be worth it if it would tear up and harm your arm. I also don't think that it outweighs the effect it has on the arm because it could be an injury tht=at can bother you for your entire life. This article relates to the motion unit because it involves the velocity of a ball to home plate (distance)and calculating the reaction time (time) and batter has to hit it.
Carly B (7-8a)
ReplyDelete1.) Why can't people throw much faster than 100mph?
This is because the body does not have the capability to produce this fast of a pitch.
2.) What impact does throwing extreme fastballs have on the body?
Wear and tear on ones arm.
3.) How does faster pitching impact batting?
The batter has less time to react. However, if the batter does hit the ball at 100mph, the ball will travel a very far distance.
4.)Do you think the attempts to be the fastest pitcher in baseball are really worth it? Do the benefits or notoriety outweigh the consequences on the body?
It would not be worth the award of being named the fastest pitcher, especially a young baseball player, because the injury will remain for the rest of that persons baseball career.
5.)How does this article relate to our motion unit?
It measures the speed and velocity.
You are not able to throw over 100 miles per hour because the amount of torque needed to throw more than 100 miles per hour is more force than the muscles in the arm can handle.The affect that fast pitching has on one's body is that it wears and tears the muscles in your arm. This is true because each time you throw the ball fast, it is equal to 60lbs. of weight on your arm. Although fast pitching may seem to have a great advantage, each mile per hour of pitch speed is worth about .2seconds of added batting speed.Overall, I don't think it is worth the risk of injury to try to be the fastest pitcher. The risk of a serious injury is not worth it. So I think good heath wins over fastest pitch. I think that this article relates to our motion unit because the pitching has to do with the speed/velocity, deceleration, and distance. The ball starts of going a certain speed but slows down before it hits the plate(deceleration). The speed,miles per hour, is one of the main units of speed we used in our equations.
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Baseball pitchers can not throw faster than 105 mph because their joints can not move that quickly. The amount of torque needed to throw that fast is greater than the amount of force the elbow can withstand with out giving out. The downside of pitching that fast is your elbow can get very injured. The downside of batting with someone who pitches a 105 mph fastball is you have a lot less reaction time. However, the ball does lose 10% of its speed by the time it crosses the home plate. In my opinion, pitching this fast is not worth the consequence of sitting out for 18 months. The notoriety is not worth the consequences on the body. Throwing three extremely fast baseballs is not worth throwing out an elbow and possibly a career. This has a lot to do with physics and motion for many reasons. One,pitching revolves around motion and velocity. Velocity deals with speed and the pitchers need to move their arms really fast when rotating and releasing the ball. Also, the way things are measured in baseball has to do with physics. The units they use are mph and newton meters. Overall, pitching this fast is not worth it.
Cecilia B
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You are not able to throw faster then 100 mph because the joints in our arm can not move that quickly. If you throw to fast, the you can throw out our arm. When the pitcher throws that fast, it is harder for the batter to hit the ball, but if the batter does hit the ball, then the ball will go extremely far. I do not think it is worth it, because you might be a hero for one game, but the end result could end up in ruining your arm. This article relates to our unit because it measure speed.
Brendan S.
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People cannot throw over 100mph because there is so much strain on the ligaments in the arm that they are being pushed to their maximum limit. These fastballs produce major wear and stress on the body, particularly the shoulder. With faster pitches, the batter has less time to react and swing to hit the ball. I think it is worth it to throw these extreme fastballs but only if you know what you are doing. You have to be smart about it and not injure yourself but you might be considered the fastest pitcher's in the world. These fastballs are measured in miles per hour which is a unit of speed and velocity and without the units, we wouldn't know how fast the ball really went.
I think that people cannot throw any faster then 100mph becuase it is pushing the ligaments to their furthest extent and sometimes muscles/jionts in our arms cannot move that quick. The impacts pitching has on the body usually consists of elbow injuries, but also can consist of shoulder injuries and rotator cuff problems. I do not think that the attempts to throw as hard as 100mph is worth an injured shoulder/elbow. throwing a pitch over 100mph one, maybe two times is not worth injurying yourself and being out for a couple months. this pitching article has to do with Motion becuase it involves distance, velocity/speed., and deceleration.
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ReplyDeletePitching faster than 100mph is almost physically impossible because of the stress on their elbow ligaments and because our elbow joints cannot move that quick. Throwing an extreme fastball is the equivalent of having a 60 pound weight on your arm in the position of the pitch. In reality, faster pitching doesn't put any effect on the batting, it just gives the batter less time to swing. In my opinion, trying to pitch the fastest isn't worth it. Not only does it put huge amounts of stress on your arm and joints, but it also risks signifiacnt injury to your arm, possibly resulting in surgery and an end to your baseball season. Naturally, the desire to be "the best" comes first, leaving the results and dangers to your body behind. Oftentimes people take large risks to be better than someone else. This article relates to our motion unit because it involves measuring the distance, speed, and acceleration of an object.
Julie H
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I believe that you can't throw faster than 100 mph because your arm wasn't designed to handle that speed . You can end up actually tearing a ligament in your elbow. Faster pitching is good in baseball because it gives the batter less time to hit the ball .The speed of the ball is measured starting when the pitcher releases the ball, and the catch of the ball. The pitch loses around 10% of it's speed because of air resistance. I don't think it's worth being the fastest pitcher because there are more consequences when you get hurt, than benefits from being the fastest pitcher. Even though you would get paid amazingly sometimes that's not always worth it. This article relates to the motion unit because it talks about speed and also velocity.
Matt e
ReplyDeleteI believe that the average person cant throw a hundred mile per hour fast ball because they have not been training for it and do not have the biological features given to these athletes. These athletes might have certain biological mutations that allow them to throw the ball that faster then the average human. Such features like stronger muscles or looser ligaments might help though a ball faster. The athletes have also learned how how to control the friction of the baseball and the science of throw a ball
Humans can only throw a certain speed due to the total amount of torque they can exert for a single pitch, knowing that a 100+ mile per hour pitch would be similar to having a sixty pound weight on your hand you can conclude that not many athletes are capable of handling that. Also inside of the article they discuss a maximum velocity for a human to be just around 100 miles per hour. Throwing extreme fastballs puts abnormal amounts of stress throughout your entire body, they said that these amounts can only truly be achieved by elite athletes. When pitching is faster the reaction times needed is lower since a batter will almost always have under a half second to react to a pitch thrown to them. After reading about the fastest pitch I was able to conclude that the guy who can throw the fastest tends to not be the most famous. In other simple wording no it does not outweigh the consequence's. This article relates to science since it discusses air resistance,velocity, and torque all in the same article.
ReplyDeleteMatt W
ReplyDeleteyou cant throw much faster than 100 mph because the muscle in the arm isnt able to handle that type of speed and you can easily injure yourself. faster pitching affects batting because it makes it harder to hit the ball but if you do hit the ball its most likely going to go further. I dont think its worth being the fastest pitcher because the fastest pitcher isnt the best pitcher. this is related to motion because it measures speed and velocity.
Dan S.
ReplyDeleteYour body does not let you throw the ball more then 100 mph without throwing your arm out. The amount of force needed to throw a ball 100 mph is to much for the ulnar collateral ligament (the elbow ligament). If you where able to throw the ball more then 100mph, you will probably have to sit for the next season with a torn elbow or shoulder. To be able to push your body to throw that fast comes with consequences. Your season could possibly over or even career if u try to push your body to far. This is related to motion because it has to do with speed and velocity.
The human body can't physically throw a ball faster than 100 mph without injuring itself. The is too much stress on the joints and ligaments when you try to throw a ball that fast. The faster you throw the ball, the farther it will go if it is hit. It is also harder for the batter to hit the ball when it is coming that fast at them. If you really want to be known as the fastest pitcher, it would require years of training and most likely injuring yourself. This article relates to our unit because it talks about the speed and motion of the ball.
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ReplyDeletethey can't throw faster then 100mph because their joints can't move that fast and it is putting a lot of strain on your ligaments. The faster a ball is thrown the less reaction time the batter has to hit the ball, but the faster the ball is going the farther it will go if it is hit. i don't think it is worth trying to get the fastest pitch because it puts a lot of strain on your ligaments and you can be injured very easily. the fastest picture isn't necessarly the best pitcher. i don't think it is worth being injured for basiclly the rest of your life and it will affect you in a lot of ways. this has to do with motion because it shows how motion affects the body.
This is frankie perrone. The human body can not throw too much faster than that because it puts way to much stress on the joints. the reason that major league players can throw that fast is because they train almost all there life to throw that fast. the effect on batters is that they have less time to react and hit the ball. It might not be worth trying to throw that fast because it really messes up your joints and tears them.yes the benfits outwiegh the bad becasue your making millions but your joints wil be mest up. I learned how to convert units. this relates to are motion unit becasue it has to deal with velocity and speech
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ReplyDeleteThis is Alex h 7-8a. The reason that most ordinary people cant throw at speeds of above 100mph is because the amount of muscle needed to throw that fast is near superhuman levels. the amount of straine that is placed on the joints and muscles is near extreme levels. The faster a ball comes to the batter the farther he is going to be able to hit it, because of a greater impact. I think the fact of being nabed number one pitcher is worth it, because you gave the sport everything you had and people will remember you for what you put forth. The way that this relates to our study of motion is that pitching and batting speeds have different affects on how far the ball wll travel.
ReplyDeleteAnneMarie(2b-3)
ReplyDeletePeople cant throw fast balls because the forces is too much for one arm. The position the pitcher must stay in before he pitches the ball plus the force that is applied when he throws the ball is very drastic. That is why it is hard to throw 100 mph. The impact is that the arms muscles stretch out so they can force all the bodies energy to the arm to throw. The muscle never go back to normal because they are stretched out. This isn’t worth it because you are just putting more stress on you body every time you try. The chances are higher that you will hurt yourself then to break the pitching record. In baseball it is more about breaking records like how many strikes in a row, at bats and things like that. This article relates to motion unit because it talks about the velocity how the force you arm effects it.
Mike R. 2b-3
ReplyDeleteMost people can't because science(Especially physics) is great and it shows that it close to impossible to throw 100mph or faster, but I like to believe that people can because it's great for sports and Physics.
Mai Nutnicha P. (7-8a)
ReplyDeleteYou can't throw faster than 100 mph because your arm can't handle it and your hand is going to be throw out. If you able to throw the ball more then 100mph, you will probably hurt your arm.the faster pitcher can impact batting less time to react and hit the ball and I think, being the fastest pitcher is not worth because if you try to do that, you can really get hurt your body. This article relates the motion unit because this article talk about speed or verocity of an object
Genevieve L. 1a-2a
ReplyDeletepeople can't throw any faster than a 100mph pitch because in order to throw a pitch that fast you need a lot of torque, and when attempting to throw a ball at that speed the ulnar collateral ligament will give out. when throwing or attempting to throw a ball at that speed it causes damage to the arm that you use to throw. The faster the pitch the harder it is for the batter to react in time to perfectly hit the ball. i do not think that the effects of being a faster pitcher is worth it because if you have just begun your baseball career you could easily ruin it. no the benefits do not outweigh the effects on the body because, like i stated before, you could ruin your entire baseball career. this article relates to this unit because it has to do with acceleration.
Ashling C. 2b-3
ReplyDeleteMost people can not throw faster than 100 mph because the muscle in peoples arm can't handle that much pressure. When it comes to batting it all depends on how fast the batters reaction time is. For me I don't think it would be worth it to throw out your arm out just to break a record, because it will only be a headline for a day but you need your arm for the rest of your life!