Abaseball sitting on the roof of the stadium has 60 j of potential energy. a pigeon lands on the baseball and knocks it off. how fast will the baseball be traveling the instant before it strikes the ground? assume the baseball weighs 150 grams, and that all of the potential energy is converted into kinetic energy.

All the Potential Energy is converted into kinetic energy, this means that P. E = K. E = 60J
K. E = 1/2 x mass x (velocity)2
60 = 0.5 x 0.15 x (velocity)2

Velocity = 28.3 m/s
The baseball speed was 28.3 m/s before it strikes the ground

Iread this book last year so take this with a grain of salt.gene jumps from the tree to compete with finny due to the fact that gene is always trying to do better than finny. he is put under the grasp of peer pressure due to finny almost forcing him to do this. ever since he first jumped finny kept pressuring him to jump since he thought gene enjoyed jumping.rather than uses this answer you should probably just reread chapters 3-4