Question

The height of a baseball hit from a bat is modeled by a quadratic function of time, h(t). What does the second coordinate of the vertex of the quadratic function represent

Answer 1

The second term is represents the SPEED or velocity of the ball, and is the coefficient of the time ( ' t ' ) term.

h(t) = -16t^2 + (50 ft/sec)t + (initial height)          *(This is just an example.)