Making Momentum Chart and Finding Force for Baseball and Bat

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A 1 kg bat hits a 150 g baseball traveling at 40 m/s opposite to the bat’s direction. This collision lasts 1/1000 of a second. Immediately after it is hit the baseball has a velocity of 50 m/s opposite to its initial direction and the bat 10 m/s in the same direction as the as it moved initially. Draw a momentum chart for the collision and find the average force on the bat.
 
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CWatters said:
Sounds like homework so may get moved to that section.

Have you tried to solve it yourself?
Its study prep for a quiz I have. I am assuming the initial momentum for both will be a vector of the same length, just in an opposite direction for each one. And then final momentum for the baseball is a vector in the other direction just a little bit longer, and for the baseball its a same direction vector but a lot shorter. Is this correct?
 
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