When a catcher in a baseball game grabs a fastball thrown at 90 miles an hour (that is 40 m/s), his hand and glove recoil from the catch.  The mass of a baseball is about 0.15 kg.  The mass of his hand and mitt may be 2 kg.  What is the velocity of recoil for a completely inelastic collision if he holds onto the ball?

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When a catcher in a baseball game grabs a fastball thrown at 90 miles an hour (that is 40 m/s), his hand and glove recoil from the catch.  The mass of a baseball is about 0.15 kg.  The mass of his hand and mitt may be 2 kg.  What is the velocity of recoil for a completely inelastic collision if he holds onto the ball?

 

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Inelastic collision is the collision in which kinetic energy is not conserved like elastic collision.

SO basically inelastic collision is the opposite to the elastic collision.

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