Does microwaving a softball help it to be hit a greater distance?
598180
Nope.  If anything the ball would become softer and thus would absorb and diffuse more energy from the bat.
10100
The size and weight of the ball effects the aerodynamics...\n\nAlso, until recently, baseball was exclusive to younger males, and softball was for both genders, of all ages, as well as co-ed participation...
904885
there are many and i mean many factors of possibly making it faster. But 50ft away is quite a distance get closer to your router that will improve speeds. Also cable your speeds will fluctuate since you are networked into a hub. Your home many have a lot of interference in the walls. google it "help with wireless connections" or something like that.
917582
Not very well. Biscuits need time to rise while they cook. With a microwave you just get hot biscuit dough.
946504
Intensity varies as the square of the distance.\nThat should help
1010390
It would probably be better to buy a new softball instead of trying to patch one.\n\n :P
947506
no.\nsound waves travel faster in warm temperatures than in colder ones.\nWhile sound does travel faster in warm air, it doesn't necessarily travel farther. If sound is traveling over a warm area, the temperature normally decreases with increased height, thus the top part of the horizontally traveling sound wave will propagate slower than the lower part. This causes an upward refraction of the sound, bending it away from the ground. However, over a cold area, such as a frozen lake, the upper air may actually be warmer than the lower layer of air. This causes the sound wave to travel faster in the upper region resulting in refraction of the sound towards (along) the ground. And the sound will "travel" farther over the cold surface than over the warm surface.
1105771
well, how about a microwave's affect on a potato, compared to visible light, or radio length waves.\n\nwith enough energy, you could get some heat-up (absorption) at most any frequency but not the inside out efficient heating that you get with microwaves.
1135873
With no signal loss, you use zero cable.  But in answer to your question, lengths of up to ten meters coupled to an appropriate antenna would still be applicable.  A quick search yields:\n\n"30 meters of new 75 Ohm hardline has only about 3.77 dB loss at 2 GHz"
465902
Good Question. Hmm now I am going to really think about it!\nAnd ya know what? That softball isn't soft at all. Have you had one hit you in the head?? OCUH!
620214
As already stated, it's a rules issue. \n\nEither bat will work with either ball, they are made out of the same materials.\n\nBaseball bats have larger barrels, would be easiear to hit a softball. Hint; to improve your baseball swing, practice with a softball (skinny barrel) bat. When you change back to the baseball bat you'll feel like you're swinging a tennis racket!\n\nBaseball bats must meet (and be stamped) BESR Certified (Bat Exit Speed Ratio) for most HS play, or meet certain length to weight ratios for other play. All haive size/dimension restrictions. Wood bats only have size/dimension restrictions, and are legal in all play.\n\nSoftball bats for HS and most league play must be listed on an approved list published by the ASA (Ameteur Softball Association) and bear a certification mark. Proper sized wood bats are also legal.
963361
In recent years they have introduced using microwaves to cook enlarged prostates. It tendes to burn the urethra however.\n\nEven better would be the use of focused ultrasound, as other tissues are less effected.
403407
There are several reasons why, I'll list some of them:\n\n- For any given power of wave transmitted, regardless of the frequency: a radio wave will lose power the further it propogates from the transmitter source because of the square distance law (the further away from a point source, the square root of the power is received). I forget the exact way to word it, but that's one reason.\n- Atmospheric absorbtion: the atmosphere both aids in the propogation of the radio waves (the ionosphere, tropospheric bending), but it also absorbs a portion of the wave. It happens.\n\nOne of the things to keep in mind when talking about radio waves is frequency. The general rule is: the lower the frequency, the more bendable it is. At night, you can listen to AM radio stations from around the world, if you have a sharp enough receiver. During the day, because the sun's rays are interacting with our atmosphere more, exciting the ionosphere, AM propogation is cut down severely. During the Super Bowl, when I was in my car in Pennsylvania, I listened to the broadcasts on AM coming from Detroit, MI and Windsor, Ontario (approx. 600 miles away). As an amateur radio operator, I've talked to people thousands of miles away based on the bending of radio waves either directly around the earth (groundwave) or by having them "bounce" or refract in the ionosphere above the earth (skywaves). In fact, one of the "cool" things about AM radio stations is that they have 2 different antenna setups: 1 for the daytime, because the signals travel one certain way (mostly groundwave), and another setup for the nighttime, to prevent interference with other stations further away that are on the same frequency (mostly skywave). Listen in to one of your local AM stations around sunset and you should hear the automatic switch between the setups; the nighttime pattern should sound less strong, a lil warbly even.\n\nWhen you start talking about the frequencies of FM radio, however, that's not the case. They do not bounce off the ionosphere (except in extreme circumstances), and so are limited to how far they can travel via groundwave. Under certain circumstances, atmospheric ducting can conduct FM-frequency radio waves further than normal, but due to the nature of an FM radio wave as compared to an AM radio wave, it's not an appreciable distance.\n\nOne of the coolest things I've done as an amateur radio operator is use a mode called "moonbounce". Quite simply, a large antenna array is pointed at the moon (usually 8-10 antennas on a frequency higher than FM commercial radio) and you transmit. Nothing is cooler than hearing your voice come back to you 3 seconds after you transmit (1-1/2 seconds to the moon, and 1-1/2 seconds back). Amateurs all over the world use this mode of operation to talk to each other. It really works!!\n\nAs for SETI, instead of transmitting, there are massive antenna farms set up around the world to listen in to space. The primary frequencies they listen to are around 1420MHz, because this is the primary harmonic frequency of hydrogen, which everyone knows is the most abundant material in the universe. They also listen to different multiples, or harmonics of this frequency, as well as tuning up and down the dial around those frequencies to compensate for Doppler shift. It makes more sense to listen than to transmit, because if there is intelligent life out there, and they are space-faring, you would think that they would've been broadcasting a lot longer than we here on Earth would (the first radio signal that had any chance of escaping our solar system in a readable form wasn't transmitted until the 1920s!).\n\nAny more radio questions, msg them to me; I've been a licensed radio amateur for 11 years and I'll try to answer as much as I can for you!
385309
provide some more info if your talking using a slow pitch soft ball bat for fast pitch its probably not and any softball bat is not aprooved for baseball so provide some extra info and you might get better results most bats say on them what their aprooved for so take a look at all the crap you have nevered really looked at on it
430085
They don't?? how long did you try? Ibelieve they should die, maybe as they are small they absorb too little microwaves.. but if you keep on microwaving they will burn.\nLet us know!!!
203667
How far the ball flies is based on several factors: bat speed (moment of inertia), mass of the bat (momentum), thickness. I think that the bat length is not a primary factor in distance but does come into play is some secondary ways: longer bat, greater coverage of the plate; longer bat, bigger "sweet spot" which allows the batter to err a little.
409414
G will give you a little more distance, but not much.\n\nYour first fix would be to vary the channels.  Some 802.11 channels end up with reflective interference with cordless phones and other RF devices.  Play around with the channels to see if you can get the range you need.  if you can, then this was free!\n\n2nd measure is to improve your antenna (if that is an option).  If you are using a Linksys or D-Link router, odds are that there are replacement antennas for your unit that will boost your signal strength anywhere from 7 to 12dB.  This is less expensive than a new router.\n\nI wouldn't waste my time with a wireless extender unless the space you are trying to paint is HUGE (3000 sq ft or more), or if you have gobs of metal in your walls.  if you can vary the location of the router any, try not to put a wet wall between the router and where you want the signal.\n\nIf all else fails, there is always a spread-spectrum solution like Linksys' SRX routers and cards.  I've gotten pretty decent range with mine -- though for maximum effect, you have to change out both the router and the card.  I only had to change out 2 of my cards (both desktop units the farthest away from the router) with the "pickle fork" design external antenna.