Physics of Cricket

Bollywood motifs: Cricket fiction and fictional cricket

Automated Classification of Cricket Pitch Frames in Cricket Video

The automated detection of the cricket pitch in a video recording of a cricket match is a fundamental step in content-based indexing and summarization of cricket videos. In this paper, we propose visualcontent based algorithms to automate the extraction of video frames with the cricket pitch in focus. As a preprocessing step, we first select a subset of frames with a view of the cricket field, ...

Cricket interruptus: fairness and incentive in interrupted cricket matches∗

We present a new adjustment rule for interrupted cricket matches that equalizes the probability of winning before and after the interruption. Our proposal differs from existing rules in the quantity preserved (the probability of winning), and also in the point at which it is measured (the time of interruption). We claim this is both fair and free of incentive effects. We give several examples o...

The Effect of Teaching History of Physics on Student-Teachers’ Understanding of the Process of Model Construction in Physics

To improve student teachers’ understanding of the process of model construction in Physics, it was hypothesized that teaching the history of Physics may be of help. To test this hypothesis, two groups of senior year female student-teachers in Teaching of Physics at one of the campuses of Farhangian University in Tehran were chosen: One group had passed a course on the history of Physics, while ...

The neurobiology of cricket song.

Nowadays few people live where they can hear crickets singing on summer evenings, but makers of motion pictures know that nothing evokes a bucolic mood more effectively than the sound of crickets chirping in the background. Cricket song, which may seem like a random sequence of chirps and trills, is actually a communication system of considerable complexity. As Richard D. Alexander of the Unive...