A woman throws a baseball from the back of an airplane to the front. From the perspective of the woman, the baseball travels at an average speed of 20 m/s. To an observer on the ground, the airplane is traveling at a constant speed of 820 km/h. What is the speed of the baseball from the perspective of the ground observer?

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Markus Thornton

23 July, 16:13

A woman throws a baseball from the back of an airplane to the front. From the perspective of the woman, the baseball travels at an average speed of 20 m/s. To an observer on the ground, the airplane is traveling at a constant speed of 820 km/h. What is the speed of the baseball from the perspective of the ground observer?

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Carter Foster · Answer 1

So for these questions, you add if they're going in the same direction and you subtract if it's in the opposite direction for the ground observer, since the ball is moving in the opposite direction of the plane, it would be 820 km/h - 15 m/s 15 m/s * 60 s/min * 60 min/hour = 54000 m/h, 54000 m/h * 1000 m/km = 54 km/h 820 km/h - 54 km/h = 768 km/h to the ground observer By the way, I don't think it's safe for someone to throw a baseball that fast in an airplan

25. It's travelling at constant speed so acceleration is 0

d = v * t

t = d / v

t = 732 000 / 327

t = 2238.5 secs = 37.31 minutes