Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 12:19am.
One would need to know the angle it was thrown to estimate how much the distance was reduced by air friction.
Another way of estimating air resistance is to calculate the drag force (which requires the baseball's diameter)
Drag = (1/2) Cd*A*(air density)*V^2
Cd, the drag coefficient, is approximately 0.4 for a sphere, and
A = pi R^2
I don't think you are expected to know about that method.
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