A baseball player uses a pitching machine to

help him improve his batting average. He
places the 43.4 kg machine on a frozen pond.
The machine fires a 0.0546 kg baseball horizontally at a speed of 44.8 m/s.
What is the magnitude of the recoil velocity
of the machine?
Answer in units of m/s

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Let V be the recoil velocity. Since the total momentum must remain zero after throwing the ball,

0.0546*44.8 + 43.4*V = 0

V = -2.45/43.4 = -0.805 m/s

The minus sign means it moves in the opposite direction as the ball.

To find the magnitude of the recoil velocity of the machine, we can use the principle of conservation of momentum. According to this principle, the total momentum before an event is equal to the total momentum after the event.

In this case, we can consider the baseball and the pitching machine as a system. Before the baseball is fired, both the baseball and the machine are at rest, so the total momentum is zero.

After the baseball is fired, the total momentum of the system should still be zero. However, now the baseball has a non-zero momentum in the positive x-direction. Therefore, the machine should have an equal momentum in the negative x-direction in order to cancel out the momentum of the baseball.

We can calculate the magnitude of the recoil velocity of the machine using the formula for momentum:

momentum = mass × velocity

For the baseball:
momentum_baseball = 0.0546 kg × 44.8 m/s

Since the momentum before the event is zero, the momentum of the machine should be the negative of the momentum of the baseball:

momentum_machine = -momentum_baseball

Now, we can find the recoil velocity of the machine by dividing the momentum of the machine by its mass:

recoil_velocity_machine = momentum_machine / mass_machine

mass_machine = 43.4 kg

Substituting the values into the equation:

recoil_velocity_machine = -momentum_baseball / 43.4 kg

Calculating it:

recoil_velocity_machine = -0.0546 kg × 44.8 m/s / 43.4 kg

The magnitude of the recoil velocity of the machine is approximately 0.056 m/s.

To find the magnitude of the recoil velocity of the pitching machine, we can use the principle of conservation of momentum. According to this principle, the total momentum before an event is equal to the total momentum after the event.

In this case, before the baseball is fired by the pitching machine, the total momentum is zero since both the machine and the baseball are at rest. After the baseball is fired, the momentum of the system is still zero because the mass and velocity of the baseball are equal and opposite to the mass and velocity of the pitching machine recoil.

We can use the equation for momentum, which is the product of mass and velocity:

Total momentum before = Total momentum after

(0 kg) * (0 m/s) = (43.4 kg + 0.0546 kg) * V

where V is the magnitude of the recoil velocity of the machine.

Simplifying the equation:

0 = (43.4 + 0.0546) * V

0 = 43.4546 * V

Dividing both sides of the equation by 43.4546 to solve for V:

V = 0 / 43.4546

V = 0 m/s

Therefore, the magnitude of the recoil velocity of the machine is 0 m/s.