The science of the sport criket?

Question

I am doing a school project on the science of the sport cricket can anyone help me with this. For example: gravity forces the ball back down to earth when it is in the air.

Please help.

Answer 1

Force applied to throw the ball keep it in the air and gravity works regularly.

Answer 2

Go to link below. You will get some info.

Like:

The Magnus Effect - "Why do cricket balls swing and curve balls curve?" A page describing cricket ball aerodynamics.

Science of Cricket - The history of cricket, how it is played, and the principles of mathematics applied in cricket.

The Swing of a Cricket Ball - Explains the swing of a cricket ball, with images and links to related resources.

Answer 3

Physics is involved in cricket in many ways that players do not necessarily think of.

It starts with the biomechanics of the bowling action and how fast bowlers in particular get maximum kinetic energy transfer from the body into the ball, so they can bowl as fast as possible. There are many scientists analysing the bowling action to come up with ways to prevent the quick bowlers from injuring themselves - the bowling action is very hard on the back, knees and ankles in particular.

Then comes the movement in the air as the ball approaches the batsman, known as the swing. This is to do with the aerodynamic properties of the ball, and the fact that for conventional swing, you must have one side of the ball rougher than the other - this is because air moves past the smooth side more efficiently than the rough side. The air sliding along the rough side creates turbulance, which slows down that side of the ball slightly more than the other side, causing it to swerve, or swing, in mid air. Reverse swing is still pretty much a mystery from a scientist's perspective.

The ball can also get some sideways movement of the pitch, depending on whether the ball is spinning and whether the seam hits the pitch.

Next comes the impact with the bat. This produces an example of impulse - that is, the force on the ball at the moment of impact is equal to the change of momentum experienced by the ball multipled by the (small fraction of a second) time that the bat and ball are in contact for. Incidentally, the magnitude of the force felt by the bat at impact is identical to the magnitude of the force felt by the ball on impact, but in the opposite direction, an example of Newton's Third Law.

All cricket bats have a centre of percussion, which is more colloquially referred to as the 'sweet spot'. There is maximum kinetic energy transfer from bat to ball when the ball strikes this spot, resulting in a better timed stroke and the ball comes off the bat faster and goes further. More information about the centre of percussion at this site

http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~cross/Sw... EXPERIMENTS TO DO

Answer 4

Well i dont really know what you want

But is its all about info then

while taking a catch a bowler moves his hand backward so that more time is taken to reduce the speed of the Ball to zero which prevents injury

I will keep adding more as I remember

Answer 5

there is a Documentary about cricket its called "Science of Sport - Cricket". It is all about cricket and it explains every single thing in the game including the reason of ball curving in the air or the ( reverse swing) even tells you how fast a ball should be traveling in order to Curve . its on youtube.com its about an hour long, but its worth watching just follow the link below. it has 6 parts, make sure watch them all. part 3 explains about Ball Curving

Good Luck!

Answer 6

i agree with crystal.

in physics you learn that the more you push towards the ball the more time you take take to catch the ball some thing like that.

Answer 7

Well I think so that the batsman has to calculate the speed, force & the time for hitting a boundary.

Answer 8

Cricket is funny holmes.

But science?Cricket and science have no connection vato.

Answer 9

Not just cricket , everything is explained by science.There is no one line answer to this question.You should look up the internet and search the topic you want.

Answer 10

science with cricket, a tough question

well you can give details of the weight of the ball and how the seam allows the ball to swing and spin

also bats and effects of its thickness or thinness

effect of the mass of the bat on the distance or heigth the ball attains