Re: .Bernoulli and curve balls.

[jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu]

Paul Camp says:
> ....
> In addition to that horizontal rotation is a backward rotation 
> imparted when the ball rolls off the fingers so all told the top of 
> the ball, as seen by a right-hander, is coming back and to the right. 
> If you do this, the ball curves down and to the right 
> which brings it low and inside to a left-handed batter. Low and 
> inside is good. It is hard to hit to begin with and if the ball is 
> hit, tends to hook foul.
> ....

Do I read this correctly to say that the baseball curves in the direction
opposite to it's spin?

-- 
--James McLean
jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu
post doc
UCSD