Question: If a 70 kg baseball player steals home by sliding into the plate with an initial speed of 10 m/s just as he hits the

If a 70 kg baseball player steals home by sliding into the plate with an initial speed of 10 m/s just as he hits the ground,
(a) What is the decrease in the player's kinetic energy and
(b) What is the increase in the thermal energy of his body and the ground along which he slides?

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