This summer, visitors to the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey can become better baseball players through physics and materials. TMS Member Nuggehalli M. (Ravi) Ravindra, a professor in the Department of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a team of students have developed a summer exhibit for the science center called the Bat Mobile.

The Bat Mobile is a motorized batting machine that rotates three bats made of composites, wood, and aluminum to hit baseballs thrown by a pitching machine. A sensor records the speed of the ball coming off of the bat and displays it on a screen.

The exhibit combines materials science and physics, Ravindra explains. Guests use data ...

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