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Q: Is swinging a baseball bat potential energy?
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How does the energy in a persons muscles help in swinging a baseball bat?

it can make you swing the bat faster but it doesn't mean you hit better


A baseball bat is a machine. When a batter swings and hits a ball the batter swinging is the?

The batter swinging the bat.


What energy does the bat gain when you swing it?

No I would disagree with the answer NO. I believe that a bat hitting a baseball transfers energy. The energy of the swinging bat, transfers it's swinging energy into the ball, causing the ball to stop moving in one direction, changing and then quickly moving away in another direction. So, my guess would be that yes, a bat transfers energy when it hits a baseball. Now, not knowing bunches about physics (yeah, sure, I studied it in college--and barely passed the course), I can't give you the formulas and such. I'll leave that to someone else better versed in physics


What muscle assists you in swinging a baseball bat?

Nearly every muscle in your body is used in swinging a baseball bat. That is assuming the person swinging the bat is doing the conventional "squish the bug, and chop the tree" method to swinging. Simply standing still and swinging the bat would use the muscles in your arms, upper chest, back, and neck muscles.


When a baseball player is holding a bat what kind of energy does the bat have?

It seems to be incorrect that the bat itself has any energy; rather, the batter's arm muscles contain the energy, which then transfers to the bat, which acts on the baseball.So, in short, it is the player that possesses the potential energy, not the bat.


Is a weighted baseball bat a example of potential energy?

no, if you had a heavy book on a table, the closer you move it to the edge the more you increase the gravitational potential energy


Is baseball anaerobic?

Running the bases is aerobic and swinging the bat is anaerobic


What is a hack in baseball?

It's another word for swinging at the ball with your bat.


What do you call hitting a baseball lightly swinging the bat without?

bunting?


What form of energy is a bat?

potential


What subsystem is of primary importance for swinging a bat or throwing a baseball?

inner unit


The subsystem is of primary importance for swinging a bat or throwing a baseball?

inner unit