Is it ever faster to dive instead of run to an object (i.e. first base)?

Subject: Is it ever faster to dive instead of run to an object (i.e. first base)?

Date: Mon Jun 21 22:23:09 1999
Posted by anonymous
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: No school entered.
City: Cleveland State/Province: Ohio Country: U.S.A.
Area of science: Physics
ID: 930021789.Ph

Message:


simply in a matter of speed - can you ever have an advantage by 
leaving your feet and diving? sprinters lean forward when they 
break the parallel of the finish line, but that is a plain not an 
object.

Re: Is it ever faster to dive instead of run to an object (i.e. first base)?

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