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Posted by Student1 on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 6:13pm.

A regulation 145 g baseball can be hit at speeds of 100 mph. If a line drive is hit essentially horizontally at this speed and is caught by a 65 kg player who has leapt directly upward into the air, what horizontal speed (in cm/s) does he acquire by catching the ball?

physics - bobpursley, Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 6:25pm
Use the law of conservation of momentum.

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