Baseball and weather have something in common: Science, especially physics, is important to each.
Today we're learning from Meteorologist Bill Henley how three important Laws of Motion affect how far a baseball goes -- and how long it will be until a storm arrives.
Here are Isaac Newton's three Laws of Motion, which Bill discusses:
- An object at rest will stay at rest.
- The acceleration of an object depends on the mass of the object and the amount of force applied.
- When one object exerts force on another object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite reaction on the first.
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Watch the video -- with a cameo from the Phillie Phanatic -- to see these laws in action. And if you want more information about Newton's laws, check out these resources:
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