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Which goes farther, a baseball or a tennis ball when hit earnestly by a bat?
Does a tennis ball absorb enough of the impact of the hit from a bat (wooden or metal) that it would not go as far as a baseball? That's my brother's argument, but my memories from childhood wants to convince me that a tennis ball would outdistance a baseball... or that maybe up to a certain point the tennis ball would outdistance the baseball, but after then the tennis ball would succumb to wind resistance? But my brother and his friend want to favor the baseball, regardless - something I'm quite reluctant to do... Thoughts?
Interesting question. I think the baseball would go further. A tennis ball has a lower total mass than a baseball. Given that it's a new tennis ball, it would come off the bat at a much higher velocity than the baseball, but wind resistance would deteriorate its speed much quicker than a baseball of the same size.
One estimate I read said that a baseball loses 1 MPH for every 7 feet of travel. I couldn't find an equivalent estimate for a tennis ball, but I did find an estimate that a tennis ball loses roughly half its velocity during the travel from one baseline to the other. A tennis court is 78 feet, and a very fast serve is about 155 mph. This means ~77.5 MPH is lost over 78 feet, or (rather surprisingly) about 1 MPH for every 1 feet of travel. This implies the tennis ball would rather quickly peter out even if hit _way_ faster than a baseball.
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