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Title: What Effect Does Wind have on a Baseball Game?
Description: This project examines the relationship between wind velocity and direction and the distance a baseball travels

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What Effect Does Wind have on a Baseball Game?
Grade Level: 6th to 8th; T ype: Physics

Object ive:
This project examines the relationship between wind velocity and direction and the
distance a baseball travels
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Can the outcome of a baseball game be
determined by wind velocity?

Mat erials:
Baseball
Multi-speed fan
Open indoor area, such as a gymnasium

Experiment al Procedure:
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Stand on the spot and throw the ball toward the opposite end of the room
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Turn the fan on low and position it so that the air is behind the ball and traveling in the same direction as the
throw
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Repeat the throw with the fan on high
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Complete one throw with the fan on low and one throw with the fan on high
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Compare the distances of the ball when the fan was set to low and to high
Title: What Effect Does Wind have on a Baseball Game?
Description: This project examines the relationship between wind velocity and direction and the distance a baseball travels