How does gravity affect a baseball hit into the air?

Answer 1

When you hit a ball off a tee or hit one that's pitched to you, you are changing its momentum. In the first case, the ball has zero momentum before you hit and only a little more when you nip it and it dribbles a few away from you while everyone watching laughs. In the latter case, the thrown ball has positive momentum that the pitcher gave it, and hitting it changes that momentum from positive to negative, assuming you don't foul it straight back. (Momentum is a vector quantity, you see.) Changing an object's momentum requires you to do work on it, which requires energy. The greater the change in momentum, the more energy is required. But momentum depends upon mass as well as velocity. In other words, if two objects are going the same speed, the more massive object has greater momentum, which is why it's better to get hit in the head with a ping-pong ball dropped from three feet than a Bowling ball dropped from three inches. So, a more massive -- that is, heavier -- ball will not go as far if you hit it with the same amount of energy with which you hit a lighter one.

Answer 2

I did my science faire project on this, and I built a catapult, made tennis balls have different weights by filling them with sand and tested it. My results showed that yes, it does affect the distance it travels when being catapulted. The heavier the ball was, the shorter the distance and vise versa. So as the weight increased the distance decreased. As the weight decreased the distance increased.

Answer 3

The effect of gravity on the ball is constant, whether the ball is thrown, hit, spit on,

or resting in a drawer in the catcher's locker in the clubhouse.

Gravity produces a constant force on the ball, directed toward the center of the

Earth. And once the ball leaves the hand that's supporting it, the force produces

a constant acceleration toward the center of the Earth.

Answer 4

The force of gravitation will draw said Baseball towards the largest/most massive object in the vicinity on which gravity may exert a force. On Earth, this will cause the ball to instantly move downward at 9.8 m/s^2. It will not appear so, however, because the baseball will also being moving upward. However, the ball has negative acceleration upwards and forwards, and positive acceleration downwards, so its set velocity forward and upward will only act upon the ball for a short amount of time.

Yes that's when gravity comes in...if gravity doesn't it would never come back down!

Gravity consistently applies acceleration to the baseball in a downward direction. Initially the ball's upward velocity is larger than the accumulated acceleration, so the ball goes upward quickly. However, as the acceleration accumulates, the ball climbs more slowly until the accumulated acceleration is equal to the initial upward velocity. At that point the ball stops going up and begins to go down, increasing in speed as the downward acceleration continues to accumulate.

Answer 5

Gravity affects a baseball hit into the air by pulling it back towards the ground, causing it to follow a curved path known as a parabolic trajectory. As the baseball ascends, gravity slows it down until it reaches its highest point, after which it accelerates back towards the ground due to gravity's pull.

Answer 6

i really dont know cause im tryin to find out my self

Answer 7

Mass