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Question: The sport with the fastest moving ball is jai alai, where measured speeds have reached 303 km/hr. If a professional jai alai player faces a ball at that speed and involuntarily blinks, he blacks out the scene for 100 ms. How far does the ball move during the blackout?

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The distance ball moved during the blackout is 8.42m.

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01

Given data

The measured speed, 303km/h

Time interval, ▵t=100m/s

02

The speed of an object is defined as the rate of change of distance with time. It is a scalar quantity.  

The expression for the speed is given as follows:

speed=DistanceTimeInterval … (i)

03

Determination of the distance moved during the blackout.

First, convert the speed of the ball fromkm/htom/s . The speed of the ball can be written as,

Speed=303km/h=303×518m/s=84.167m/s

From equation (i), the distance covered during the blackout is,

Distance=Speed×Timeinterval=84.167m/s×100×10-3s≈8.42m

Thus, the distance ball moved during the blackout is 8.42m..

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