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Re: How will FIRST measure muzzle velocity?

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Originally Posted by ted bell
are they going to have six different radar guns to clock how fast the balls are going?
A problem with radar guns is that they only measure the componen of the velocity that is aligned to the line of sight of the radar gun. If the radar gun is perpendicular to the ball trajectory (the extreme case), the radar gun will see zero velocity. This would make using them for on field measurements problematical IMHO.