Baseball

Baseball
Practice Problems

Hints:
Speed of light = 3.0 x10⁸m/sec
Speed of sound = 1090 ft/sec
Enter large or small numbers in e notation. For example 2900000 would be 2.9 x 10⁶ which would be entered 2.9E6
.000000034 would be entered 3.4E-8
Make sure to enter your answers in the specified units .

Rob DePaolo can pitch at miles/hour. (He wishes!) How fast would that be in meters/second?

Christian Berg comes up against a pitcher who can throw the ball at miles/hour. It is 60 feet and 6 inches from the mound to the plate. How long would it take the ball to travel from the mound to the plate (in seconds)?

Let's say Matt LaSorsa actually hit the ball ( rather than just smiling for the camera ). How long would it take for the sound of the bat hitting the ball to reach the Video Camera microphone which is located feet away?

Mariano Rivera is helping the team by videotaping the game. (This helps the team more than having him actually playing.) How long would it take the light from the plate to reach the camera, which is located feet away?

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