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A baseball (m = 145 g) traveling 55 m/s moves a fielder's glove backward 35 cm when the ball is caught. What was the average force exerted by the ball on the glove?

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The solution for the average force exerted is given equationally.

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a = (v^2 - vi^2) / 2x, where v is final velocity, vi is initial velocity, and x is ...

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