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A good, professional baseball pitcher throws a ball straight up in the air. Estimate how high the 145 g ball will go. (A good throw can reach 90 mph.) Explain your answer.

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Convert 90mph into SI unit
1 mph = 0.447 m/s
Thus vo = 90 mph = 40.23 m/s

Using the trajectory ...

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