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9.29** (a) A baseball is thrown vertically up with initial speed v. from a point on the ground at colatitude #. Use the solution (9.73) of Problem 9.26 to show that the ball will return to the ground a distance (422v. sin @)/(3g?) to the west of its launch point. (b) Estimate the size of this effect on the equator if vo = 40 m/s. (c) Sketch the ball's orbit as seen from the north (by an observer fixed to the earth). Compare with the orbit of a ball dropped from a point above the equator, and explain why the Coriolis effect moves the dropped ball to the east, but the thrown ball to the west. Z thrown up dropped x (east) Please explain c only