In order to catch a ball, a baseball player naturally moves his or her hand backward in the direction of the ball's motion once the ball contacts the hand. This habit causes the force of impact on the players hand to be reduced in size principally because ___.

a) the resulting impact velocity is lessened

b) the momentum change is decreased

c) the time of impact is increased

d) the time of impact is decreased

e) none of these

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Janetta

Physics

3 April, 08:52

In order to catch a ball, a baseball player naturally moves his or her hand backward in the direction of the ball's motion once the ball contacts the hand. This habit causes the force of impact on the players hand to be reduced in size principally because ___.

a) the resulting impact velocity is lessened

b) the momentum change is decreased

c) the time of impact is increased

d) the time of impact is decreased

e) none of these

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Audrey Padilla · Answer 1

b) Momentum decreased

Explanation:

The relative velocity (with repect to hand) of ball is decreased by moving hand with some velocity in the direction of ball's velocity.