Question

Professional baseball pitchers deliver pitches that can reach the blazing speed of 100 mph (miles per hour). A local team has drafted an up-and-coming, left-handed pitcher who can consistently pitch at 42.91 m/s (96.00 mph) . Assuming a pitched ball has a mass of 0.1434 kg and has this speed just before a batter makes contact with it, how much kinetic energy does the ball have?

Answer 1

Answer: 132.02 J

Explanation:

By definition, the kinetic energy is written as follows:

KE = 1/2 m v²

In our question, we know from the question, the following information:

m = 0.1434 Kg

v= 42.91 m/s

Replacing in the equation for KE, we have:

KE = 1/2 . 0.1434 Kg. (42.91)² m²/s² ⇒ KE = 132.02 N. m = 132.02 J