A baseball player hits a ball 35 feet away and an outfielder catches it and throws it back to first base (25 feet away). What is the displacement of the baseball ball?
25 feet displacement
35 feet displacement
10 feet displacement
60 feet displacement
The displacement of an object is the shortest distance between its initial and final positions. In this case, the baseball starts at home plate and ends up at first base. The distance between home plate and first base is 90 feet (60 feet from the pitcher's mound to home plate plus 30 feet from home plate to first base).
Therefore, the displacement of the baseball is 90 feet, not any of the given answer options.
Final Answer: None of the above.
Wrong, what is the answer?
Apologies for the incorrect response earlier. Given that the baseball player hits the ball 35 feet away and the outfielder throws it back to first base (25 feet away), the displacement of the baseball ball can be calculated as the difference between these two distances.
The outfielder's throw back to first base cancels out part of the initial distance traveled by the ball. Therefore, the displacement of the baseball ball is 35 feet - 25 feet = 10 feet.
The correct answer is: 10 feet displacement.