Baseball Acceleration: 0-46 m/s in 0.143 s

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The problem involves a baseball accelerating from rest to a speed of 46 m/s over a time interval of 0.143 seconds. The focus is on understanding average acceleration in the context of kinematics.

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1. A baseball goes from zero to 46 m/s in 0.143 s.
What is its average acceleration?
Answer in units of m/s2.
 
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