A 0.145 kg baseball pitched at 39.0 m/s is hit on a horizontal line drive straight back towards the pitcher at 59.0 m/s. If the contact time between bat and ball is 0.001 s, calculate the average force between the ball and
bat contact. (NO Scientific Notation!)

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I'm having some difficulty seeing the diagram clearly.but the question says there's a net inward force on the object.so we know right away,  from newton's 2nd law of motion, thatthat baby is accelerating.  it doesn't even matter which way thenet force is pointing.  if there's any net force, then either theobject's speed or else its direction must be changing.