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A bat strikes a 0.145 kg baseball. Just before impact, the ball is traveling horizontally to the right at 55.0 m/s , and it leaves the bat traveling to the left at an angle of 40 degrees above horizontal with a speed of 55.0 m/s. The ball and bat are in contact for 1.85 ms (milliseconds). Assume positive x direction is to the right.

Find the vertical component of average force on the ball.

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This solution illustrates how to solve a momentum problem that involves finding the vertical component of average force on a ball hit by a bat.

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Knowing that

force = (change in momentum)/time ----------Equation 1

what we need to do is to first get the change in momentum along the vertical direction.

Change in momentum along the vertical direction = mass ...

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