Ball hitting the bat
Classical Mechanics
Level
2
A ball approaches a batsman horizontally at speed , and the batsman swings the bat, hitting the ball back along the same path. If the speed of the bat is 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.
by
Rohit Gupta