Direction of spin axis and spin rate of the pitched baseball

Sports Biomechanics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 197-214

  Jinji, Tsutomu ^a   Sakurai, Shinji ^a  

^a CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Ball; Baseball; Pitching; Spin; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSICS; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACCELERATION; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOVEMENT; PHYSICS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 39049163877     PISSN: 14763141     EISSN: 17526116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14763140608522874     Document Type: Article

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