Question

When you catch a baseball, what kind of work do you do, negative or positive? By catching the baseball, what do you change? Does the baseball gain or lose energy? What kind of energy?

Answer 1

i know 2

Answer 2

ok

Answer 3

1st would you think negative or positive

Answer 4

i think its neg.

Answer 5

k 2nd do yu hink gain or lose

Answer 6

lose

Answer 7

right

Answer 8

for the third i dont know

Answer 9

@cupcakesonice

Answer 10

thats ok:) u earned yourself another fan:)

Answer 11

thanks i will fan you to

Answer 12

@cupcakesonice might be able to help you

Answer 13

ok:) thank you

Answer 14

yep : D

Answer 15

can you do me a favor @Tattyspur

Answer 16

sure

Answer 17

can you see if you can help me with a question i posted a few minutes ago

Answer 18

its right above yours

Answer 19

So you are right- you would be doing negative work and you will lose energy.

But what kind of energy would you be losing?

Remember- we have potential and kinetic energy

When you catch the ball, would you be converting the kinetic energy to potential energy

or potential energy to kinetic energy?

Answer 20

you would lose the kinetic energy from the baseball and the kinetic energy would turn into potential from it stopping in your hand

Answer 21

Exactly! So you're losing kinetic energy

wouldn't you say that's also something you're changing by catching the ball?

Answer 22

the amount of kinetic to potential energy?

Answer 23

yup

Answer 24

also remember

work = Force * distance

and the person throwing the baseball would be doing positive work

you're doing negative work by catching the baseball because you're exerting a force in the opposite direction

so that's another thing you're changing

Answer 25

right.

Answer 26

hopefully that helped :)

Answer 27

thnks soooo much :)

Answer 28

of course! Glad I could help :)