Question

A 0.145-kg baseball pitched horizontally at 27 m/s strikes a bat and is popped straight up to a height of 43 m. if the contact time between the bat and the ball is 2.75 ms, calculate the average force [exerted by the bat on the ball] during contact. [let the positive axis lie along the line from the batter to the pitcher, with the batter at the origin.]

Answer 1

A 0.145-kg baseball pitched horizontally at 27 m/s strikes a bat and is popped straight up to aheight of 43 m. If the contact time between the bat and the ball is