Inquiry into Physics
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Chapter 2, Problem 15P
. As a baseball is being caught, its speed goes from 30 to 0 m/s in about 0.005 s. Its mass is 0.145 kg.
(a) What is the baseball’s acceleration in m/s and in Ws?
(b) What is the size of the force acting on it?
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