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Homework Statement
While trying out for the position of pitcher on your high school baseball team, you throw a fastball at 86.0 mi/h toward home plate, which is 18.4 m away. How far does the ball drop due to effects of gravity by the time it reaches home plate? (Ignore any effects due to air resistance and assume you throw the ball horizontally.)
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Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
86 miles per hour = 38.44544 meters/second
18.4 meters / 38.44544 meters.second =0.4786 seconds
0.4786 seconds x 9.81 = 4.695 meters