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📅 NSB Regional 2016🎓 HS🔄 Round 14#️⃣ Question 8🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

You're standing at home plate on a baseball diamond. From 20 meters away, a pitcher throws a 100-gram baseball towards you at negative 40 meters per second. The baseball strikes you in the arm and bounces directly back to the pitcher at +5 meters per second. What impulse, in newton-seconds rounded to the nearest tenth, did your arm deliver to the ball during the collisions?

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