Trying to Catch a 1,000 MPH Baseball - Smarter Every Day 247

Summary by Krater

The creator tests how a supersonic baseball cannon affects various baseball gloves and a training dummy, finding that leather-on-leather impacts at supersonic speeds can create kinetic energy strong enough to ignite a fire.

From the video

Answers: What happens when a baseball is shot at supersonic speed into baseball gloves and a dummy?

• Supersonic baseball cannon physics
• Baseball glove durability tests
• High-speed photography of supersonic impacts
• Kinetic energy transfer in collisions
• Friction ignition in leather impacts

What it concludes

• Hitting a leather baseball glove with a supersonic baseball causes the leather to ignite from extreme kinetic energy and friction.
• A single baseball glove cannot stop a supersonic baseball without the ball completely passing through or destroying it.
• When multiple baseball gloves are lined up, a supersonic baseball can pass through all of them.
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