Question

A baseball player uses a pitching machine to help him improve his batting average. he places the 54.6 kg machine on a frozen pond. the machine fires a 0.149 kg baseball horizontally at a speed of 42.6 m/s. what is the magnitude of the recoil velocity of the machine? answer in units of m/s.

Answer 1

   0.029 m/s                                               ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,