Exercise 1
Average force on a batted ball
Theory used: Impulse of a forceImpulse-momentum theoremAverage force
A baseball of mass reaches the bat horizontally with speed and is hit back along the same direction, in the opposite sense, at . The contact lasts . Compute the magnitude of the impulse received by the ball and the average force exerted by the bat, neglecting the weight during the contact.
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