<u>Answer:</u>
The ball fall vertically 2.69 ft by the time it reached home plate 60.0 ft away.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Fastest recorded pitches major-league baseball, thrown by nolan ryan in 1974 = 100.8 mi/hr = 44.8 m/s
The horizontal distance to home plate = 60.0 ft = 18.288 m
We have the horizontal velocity = 44.8 m/s
So time taken = 18.288/44.8 = 0.408 seconds.
The distance traveled by baseball vertically is found out by equation
Here u =0m/s, a = 9.81 and t = 0.408 s
Substituting
So vertical distance traveled = 0.82 m = 2.69 ft