“What we find is that almost the slowest arc is often the most accurate,” he said. It’s a trade-off that favors slower throws, said Venkadesan. The opposite is true for slow and curved flight paths, with small errors in the angle of release having little effect. The ball travels in a nearly straight line in fast throws, so errors in the angle at which the ball is released are amplified small errors in controlling speed have no effect. “The ball’s just going to carry out the consequences of what you did.” “Once you launch the ball, there’s nothing you can do,” said Venkadesan, who worked on the study with L. The differences in accuracy between a fast throw and a slow one all happen after the ball is released. But lead author Madhusudhan Venkadesan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, said the new study actually found that even if a person is equally good at controlling the release at all speeds, faster throws will still be less accurate. One common theory is that the faster one throws a ball, the more difficult it is to release it at exactly the right time. The researchers also explain why certain throwing strategies work best with certain tasks.
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accuracy trade-off with a series of calculations that look strictly at the physics of throwing. The study, published April 26 in Royal Society Open Science, focuses on the origins of the speed vs. Throwing fast and accurately is a uniquely human ability (monkeys also throw things, but they’re really bad at it, say scientists). A Yale researcher’s new study looks at why this is. Whether you’re pitching in a major league baseball game or tossing crumpled paper into the trash, the act of throwing is incredibly complex and usually subject to a trade-off between speed and accuracy.
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