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Homework Statement
Your physical education teacher throws a baseball to you at
a certain speed and you catch it. The teacher is next going to throw you a
medicine ball whose mass is ten times the mass of the baseball. You are given
the following choices: You can have the medicine ball thrown with (a) the
same speed as the baseball, (b) the same momentum, or (c) the same kinetic
energy. Rank these choices from easiest to hardest to catch.
Homework Equations
p = mv
KE = 1/2 m v^2
The Attempt at a Solution
i originally thought it would be a, c, b, but i know that's wrong now and i don't know how i can derive the right answers mathematically with variables