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A baseball pitcher delivers a fastball that crosses the plate with an angle of 5.67 degrees relative to the horizontal and a speed of 80.1 miles/hour. The ball (mass 0.145 kg) is hit back over the head of the pitcher at an angle of 37.09 degrees with respect to the horizontal and a speed of 108.5 miles/hour. What is the magnitude of the impulse received by the bat?
Ok, impulse is the change in momentum.
p=m(vf-vi)
But since the mass is pitched at an angle and is hit at an angle you need to decompose the velocity vector into it's y and x components.
vyi=(35.81)sin(180-5.67)=3.54 m/s
vxi=(35.81)cos(180-5.67)=-35.63 m/s
vyf=(48.50)sin(37.09)=29.25 m/s
vxf=(48.50)cos(37.09)=6.78 m/s
Add the x and y components to each other
y's=25.71 m/s
x's=42.41 m/s
Then find the velocity of the summed vectors
vf=sqr(vx^2+vy^2)=49.6 m/s
p=mv=(0.145 kg)(49.6 m/s)=7.192 kg m/s
When I enter this into my homework site for my class, it tells me this is the wrong answer. I'm I missing something here? At first I thought maybe I'm not suppose to find the difference between 180 and my angles for the intial velocties. So I tried it just with the original angles and I still get a wrong answer message. Please help.
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2597/baseballyg4.jpg
Ok, impulse is the change in momentum.
p=m(vf-vi)
But since the mass is pitched at an angle and is hit at an angle you need to decompose the velocity vector into it's y and x components.
vyi=(35.81)sin(180-5.67)=3.54 m/s
vxi=(35.81)cos(180-5.67)=-35.63 m/s
vyf=(48.50)sin(37.09)=29.25 m/s
vxf=(48.50)cos(37.09)=6.78 m/s
Add the x and y components to each other
y's=25.71 m/s
x's=42.41 m/s
Then find the velocity of the summed vectors
vf=sqr(vx^2+vy^2)=49.6 m/s
p=mv=(0.145 kg)(49.6 m/s)=7.192 kg m/s
When I enter this into my homework site for my class, it tells me this is the wrong answer. I'm I missing something here? At first I thought maybe I'm not suppose to find the difference between 180 and my angles for the intial velocties. So I tried it just with the original angles and I still get a wrong answer message. Please help.
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2597/baseballyg4.jpg
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