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Professional baseball pitchers can deliver a pitch that can reach the blazing speed of 100 mph (miles per hour)


Professional baseball pitchers can deliver a pitch that can reach the blazing speed of 100 mph (miles per hour). A local team has drafted an up-and-coming left-handed pitcher who can consistently throw at 99.00 mph. Assuming the ball has a mass of 142.8 g and has this speed just before a batter would make contact, how much kinetic energy does the ball have? 

Kball = _______ 


From what height would the ball need to be dropped to attain the same energy, neglecting air resistance? The acceleration due to gravity is 9.81 m/s?.

 hball = _______ m

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