Mathematic Principles of Cricket - Zubair Shahab

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Since General Jason wants us to use this wiki, I shall. Not that I wouldn't have anyway. I am completely lost on what to do right now, but will get back as soon as I can. For now, I'm trying to see how I can write something for sport; and relate that to physics. Possibly something with the forces and angles involved in baseball!? Any ideas are welcome!!!!

Just off the top of my head, you might model a typical bat design and calculate its "sweet spot" assuming a uniform density of the wood or aluminum or carbon fibre or whatever; then make a "loaded" version by hiding a plug of lead near the tip of the bat, recalculate the sweet spot and the quantitative advantage this loaded bat would give the batter. It's a little contrived, but I expect baseball fans would be interested in the numbers; maybe you could get it published! But first Google it to make sure it's not common knowledge already; if it is, then you need to go further with it. In any case, avoid vague generalizations; be specific and quantitative in physical terms. -- Jess 07:39, 21 September 2008 (PDT)

This idea is suddenly way more interesting now that I more clearly see what you mean. I think that I just might start over and go with this, I hadn't gotten too far with cricket anyway. But I think that just hiding a lead weight would be a bit trivial, NOT IN THE PROGRAMMING SENSE, THAT DEFINITELY IS NOT!! But a lead loaded bat will obviously be more effective. I think I could work with a variety of shapes and sizes (and lead content) of the bat and analyze the numbers from there.

And I could make parallels to other sports such as Hockey (and Cricket!) in an attempt to better understand bat/stick physics.S44535078 21:19, 3 November 2008 (PST)