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  • October 29, 2007

    Baseball is on the mind of physicist in LAS Dean's Lecture Series

  • The World Series is over but Eli Rosenberg, professor and chair of Iowa State University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, will discuss America’s past-time in mid-November on campus.

    Rosenberg will discuss “The Physics of Baseball” Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Union’s Sun Room. The lecture is the fall 2007 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Dean’s Lecture Series event.

    In his presentation, Rosenberg will explore what makes a ball curve, why if bat swings are just a fraction off the ball will go foul, and why the ball goes further off of aluminum bats than wooden ones.

    "In a classic episode of 'Seinfeld' George Costanza teaches hitting to New York Yankees Bernie Williams and Derek Jeter," Rosenberg says, "and he tells them how easy it is to hit a baseball.

    "Once again George is wrong, but there are some basic physics ideas that are important in understanding why baseballs behave the way they do when thrown and hit," Rosenberg said.

    A Fellow of the American Physical Society, Rosenberg was both an Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow and a U.S. Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator. His research area is experimental high-energy physics.

    He has collaborated on major experiments at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab, Batavia, Ill.), the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN, Geneva Switzerland), and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC, Menlo Park, Calif.).

    This lecture series is coordinated by Iowa State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and is funded by the University Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB). A reception will follow the lecture and a poster display will be held prior to the event.

Eli Rosenberg

Eli Rosenberg

 

 
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