At major league baseball games it is commonplace to flash on the scoreboard a speed for each pitch. This speed is determined with a radar gun aimed by an operator positioned behind home plate. The gun uses the Doppler shift of microwaves reflected from the baseball, as we will study in Chapter 39. The gun determines the speed at some particular point on the baseball’s path, depending on when the operator pulls the trigger. Because the ball is subject to a drag force due to air, it slows as it travels 18.3 m toward the plate. Use the result of Problem 41 (b) to find how much its speed decreases. Suppose the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand at 90.0 mi/h = 40.2 m/s. Ignore its vertical motion. Use data on baseballs from Example 6.13 to determine the speed of the pitch when it crosses the plate.