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This chapter is the workhorse of this book. It contains our most comprehensive model. It models a collision at the sweet spot of the bat with spin on the pitch. It has five equations and five unknowns. It uses the conservation laws of physics. This chapter contains a sensitivity analysis of the model that shows the most important variables and parameters of the model. It also has advice to help each person select or create an optimal bat. It derives equations for the speed and spin of the bat and ball after the collision in terms of these same variables before the collision. The derivations are given in great detail. It is unique in the science of baseball literature. This chapter is independent of other chapters. You need not read previous chapters in order to understand it. In other words, a teacher could use this chapter in a physics or engineering course and the students would only have to buy this one chapter.
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Bahill, A.T. (2019). The BaConLaws Model for Bat–Ball Collisions. In: The Science of Baseball. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03032-2_4
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