Answer: Youre interested in the intersection of physics and sports, and you recognize

Chapter 9, Problem 96

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Youre interested in the intersection of physics and sports, and you recognize that many sporting events involve collisionsbat and baseball, foot and football, hockey stick and puck, basketball and floor. Using strobe photography, you embark on a study of such collisions. Figure 9.31 is your strobe photo of a ball bouncing off the floor. The ball is launched from a point near the top left of the photo and your camera then captures it undergoing three subsequent collisions with the floor. The component of the balls velocity whose magnitude is most affected by the collisions is a. horizontal. b. vertical. c. Both are affected equally.