During a neighborhood baseball game in a vacant lot, a particularly wild hit sends a 148-g baseball crashing through the pane of a second-floor window in a nearby building. The ball strikes the glass at 10.1 m/s, shatters the glass as it passes through, and leaves the window at 8.95 m/s with no change of direction. Calculate the magnitude of this impulse.

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he ball is in contact with the glass for 10.1 ms as it passes through. Find the magnitude of the average force of the glass on the ball (a positive number).

1 answer

Δp=FΔt
Δp= mv₂-(-mv₁)= m(v₂+v₁),
m(v₂+v₁)=FΔt
F= m(v₂+v₁)/Δt=
=0.148•(10.1+8.95)/10.1•10⁻³=132.6 N