While trying out for the position of pitcher on your high school baseball team, you throw a fastball at 84.9 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.)

=__________m.

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While trying out for the position of pitcher on your high school baseball team, you throw a fastball at 84.9 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.)

=>__________m.

amistre64 · Answer

how long does it take to reach home plate?

amistre64 · Answer

might want to covert it to meters per second instead of miles per hour

amistre64 · Answer

then the rest is the equation for gravity ...

$$h=\frac12gt^2$$

anonymous · Answer

after converting to meters that's the value for t? right?