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Picture one of the following:

  • a hockey player about to hit a puck with their stick
  • a cricket batsman about to strike the ball
  • a Baseball player about to hit the ball with their bat
  • a tennis player about the hit the ball with their racket
  • a golfer about to hit the ball with their club
In each of these three cases the motion of the object the player is using to strike the ball or puck is curved; it's approximately circular. However, the motion imparted to the ball or puck is definitely not curved. It's essentially straight. It will have the direction that the club or stick or racket had at the instant that it struck the ball or puck, and it will have the some of the speed that the club or stick or racket had at that instant.

The total speed and the direction that a club or stick or racket or bat could have imparted to something at a point would be its tangential velocity. Obviously hitting something slows the striking object down.

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