Softball Movement Analysis

My picture shows my older sister hitting a softball with a bat during one of her games. The simple span of when the pitcher is setting to pitch the ball to when the ball is actually hit by the bat and soars away is full of different physics components. Since only the batter is represented in the picture however, that is what aspects this paper will be focused on. As the ball is released from the pitcher's arm and starts to make its way down to the batter, light reflects off of the softball and travels to our eyes where it enters through the pupil. Once inside it continues through into the retina where it translates the light waves into nerves and is carried to the brain, which the optic nerve and retina are apart of. The image of the softball arrives to the optical lobe of the brain where it is processed and

While the runner finishes her swing and begins her run, chemical reactions are still occurring in her brain apart from her typical motor cortex and frontal lobe functions. The ones that keep her motivated to play and continue too, dopamine and serotonin are neurotransmitters in the brain that are released to the nervous system and serve as the natural reward system for the great hit. At the same time during these complex reactions, adrenaline, or epinephrine, is another hormone the body produces. This causes the batter’s heart rate to increase by increasing pressure in the coronary arteries as well as relaxing and contracting the muscles in the batter’s body. Furthermore adrenaline expands the lungs, which allows more air to come into the body, enlarges the pupils, allowing more light to come in, and maximizes glucose levels in the brain. No matter where you look, physics and science embodies the world, and the more we find out about the smaller, littler things like swinging a softball bat, the more we get an idea of the overall bigger picture of