Ballparking: Practical Math for Impractical Sports Questions

by Aaron Santos

How fat would you need to be to completely block a hockey goal? How much weight could you lift if you were ant-sized? How hard would you have to hit a baseball to hit the Goodyear blimp? In this amusing and enlightening book of offbeat sports estimations, physicist Aaron Santos poses these and many other outrageous problems and shows how to answer them with Enrico Fermi's method of approximation. Covering a wide range of sports--from football, baseball,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762443456
• ISBN13: 9780762443451
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Running Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"