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2010 MCM 题目 A 题：棒球棒上的最佳击球点 Explain the “sweet spot” on a baseball bat. Every hitter knows that there is a spot on the fat part of a baseball bat where maximum power is transferred to the ball when hit. Why isn’t this spot at the end of the bat? A simple explanation based on torque might seem to identify the end of the bat as the sweet spot, but this is known to be empirically incorrect. Develop a model that helps explain this empirical finding. Some players believe that “corking” a bat (hollowing out a cylinder in the head of the bat and filling it with cork or rubber, then replacing a wood cap) enhances the “sweet spot” effect. Augment your model to confirm or deny this effect. Does this explain why Major League Baseball prohibits “corking”? Does the material out of which the bat is constructed matter? That is, does this model predict different behavior for wood (usually ash) or metal (usually aluminum) bats? Is this why Major League Baseball prohibits metal bats? 中文翻译： 解释棒球棒上的“最佳击球点”。 每一个棒球手都知道在棒球棒比较粗的部分有一个击球点，这里可以把打击球 的力量最大程度地转移到球上。为什么这个点不在棒球棒的最末端？基于力矩 的解释或许可以解释确定棒球棒的最末端就是最佳的击球点，但是实际当中并 不是这样的。构建一个模型帮助解释实际当中的这个发现。 有一些棒球手相信在最佳击球点添充上软木塞可以提高打击效果（在球棒头部 挖一个圆柱状槽，填充上软木塞或者橡皮）。进一步扩展模型确认或者否定该 结论。这个解释是否可以解释为什么棒球联盟否定这种做法。 球棒是否和材质有关系，模型是否可以预测木头和金属球棒的不同打击效果？ 这是否是联盟禁止金属球棒的原因？ PROBLEM B: Criminology In 1981 Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of thirteen murders and subjecting a number of other people to vicious attacks. One of the methods used to narrow the search for Mr. Sutcliffe was to find a “center of mass” of the locations of the attacks. In the end, the suspect happened to live in the same town predicted by this technique. Since that time, a number of more sophisticated techniques have been developed to determine the “geographical profile” of a suspected serial criminal based on the locations of the crimes. Your team has been asked by a local police agency to develop a method to aid in their investigations of serial criminals. The approa