A ball approaches a batsman horizontally at speed vball, and the batsman swings the bat, hitting the ball back along the same path.
If the speed of the bat is vbat when it hits the ball, then what is the recoil speed of the ball?
Details and Assumptions:
The collision is perfectly elastic.
For all practical purposes, the speed of the bat is constant throughout the collision.
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