Blog 5

During this week's lessons on work and power, I realized that I could relate the subject to my favorite sport, baseball.  When running down the base line, which is 90 feet, or 27.43 meters, I do work.  This work can be calculated with the equation, W=(Force)(distance traveled).  If I were to run powered by a net force of 10 newtons, my amount of work would be 274.3 Joules.  I can also use this work to find the amount of power that I produce.  Power can be found using the equation Work/Time.  If I were to run to first base in the average time, 4.4 sec, my Power would be 62.34 Watts.  This seems to be a very small power, which may be due to the fact that the force I used above is very small.  With my mass at around 80kg, a force of 10N would mean that I had an acceleration under .125m/s.  I was amazed to find the ideas of Power and Work in baseball.