Question

If the ball is 0.60 mm from her shoulder, what is the tangential acceleration of the ball? This is the key quantity here--it's a measure of how much the ball is speeding up. Express your answer in m/s2 and in units of g

Answer 1

This question is incomplete, the complete question is;

In a softball windmill pitch, the pitcher rotates her arm through just over half a circle, bringing the ball from a point above her shoulder and slightly forward to a release point below her shoulder and slightly forward. (Figure 1) shows smoothed data for the angular velocity of the upper arm of a college softball pitcher doing a windmill pitch; at time t = 0 her arm is vertical and already in motion. For the first 0.15 s there is a steady increase in speed, leading to a final push with a greater acceleration during the final 0.05 s before the release. In each part of the problem, determine the corresponding quantity during the first 0.15 s of the pitch.

Angular Velocity at time 0s = 12 rad/s

Angular Velocity at time 0.15s = 24 rad/s

a) What is the angular acceleration?

b) If the ball is 0.60 m from her shoulder, what is the tangential acceleration of the ball? This is the key quantity here--it's a measure of how much the ball is speeding up. Express your answer in m/s2 and in units of g

Answer:

a) the angular acceleration is 80 rad/s²

b) the tangential acceleration of the ball is;

- a = 48 m/s²

- a = 4.9 g

Explanation:

Given the data in the question;

from the graph below;

Angular Velocity at time 0s $w_o$ = 12 rad/s

Angular Velocity at time 0.15s $w_f$ = 24 rad/s

a) What is the angular acceleration;

Angular acceleration ∝ = ( $w_f$ - $w_o$ ) / dt

we substitute

Angular acceleration ∝ = ( 24 - 12 ) / 0.15

Angular acceleration ∝ = 12 / 0.15

Angular acceleration ∝ = 80 rad/s²

Therefore, the angular acceleration is 80 rad/s²

b)

If the ball is 0.60 m from her shoulder, i.e s = 0.6 m

the tangential acceleration of the ball will be;

a = ∝ × s

we substitute

a = 80 × 0.6

a = 48 m/s²

a = ( 48 / 9.8 )g

a = 4.9 g

Therefore, the tangential acceleration of the ball is;

- a = 48 m/s²

- a = 4.9 g