Things You Thought You Knew – What Is Exit Velocity?

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English - October 21, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes - 75.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
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What is exit velocity? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore parabolas, measuring the speed of an object using the Doppler effect, and other physics in baseball.

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