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A 0.48 kg soccer ball approaches a player horizontally with a velocity of 18 m/s to the north. The player strikes the ball and causes it to move in the opposite direction with a velocity of 24 m/s.
What impulse was delivered to the ball by the player?
Answer in units of kg · m/s.
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