velocity
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He translated an infield single with an exit velocity of 37 mph into everyday language: “That’s driving in the school zone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
But if there is one clue that begins to illuminate the greatest mystery of the 2026 baseball season, it’s in Skenes’s velocity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Scott’s velocity has fluctuated over the past week, but Roberts said the Dodgers haven’t yet found an explanation for the trend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
The difference in velocity produces shear forces where the two flows meet.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
"Relative velocity to Hermes: twelve meters per second," Johanssen said.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
If Murakami struggled to connect against the slower velocities of the Japanese league, how would he fare against a steady diet of upper-90s heat?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
"These theories assume that one is describing something with well-defined velocities and energies," explains Diana Kirschbaum.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2026
To create their 3D temperature model, the researchers analyzed a wide range of geophysical data, including seismic velocities, gravity anomalies, and heat flow.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 27, 2025
“These velocities and these spin rates are very worrisome,” Meister said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2025
What Lifshitz and Khalatnikov did was to study models of the universe that were roughly like Friedmann’s models but took account of the irregularities and random velocities of galaxies in the real universe.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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