Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Mike Joseph on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 5:04pm.

A 0.140-kg baseball traveling 39.0 m/s strikes the catcher's mitt, which, in bringing the ball to rest, recoils backward 13.0 cm.

What was the average force applied by the ball on the glove?

May someone please take me through this problem step by step? Very lost????

Physics - Elena, Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 7:47am
a=v²/2•s
F=ma=m•v²/2•s

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