Question

A baseball is thrown a distance of 60 meters. What is its speed if it takes 0.5 seconds tocover the distance?

Answer 1

In order to calculate the speed, we can use the formula:

$\Delta S=V\cdot t$

Where DeltaS is the distance covered, V is the speed and t is the time.

So, for DeltaS = 60 and t = 0.5, we have:

$\begin{gathered} 60=V\cdot0.5 \\ V=\frac{60}{0.5} \\ V=120\text{ m/s} \end{gathered}$

So the speed is 120 m/s.