A 0.15-kg baseball traveling in a horizontal direction with a speed of 20 m/s hits a bat

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A 0.15-kg baseball traveling in a horizontal direction with a speed of 20 m/s hits a bat and is popped straight up with a speed of 15 m/s.
(a) What is the change in momentum (magnitude and direction) of the baseball?
(b) If the bat was in contact with the ball for 50 ms, what was the average force of the bat on the ball?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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