FYKOS Year 26 Series 6 Problem 5 — baseball · FYKOS 26 #26.6.5

Physics · mechanics

Problem

Let us consider the following model of a baseball player hitting a ball. Baseball bat is a thin homogeneous rod of length

L

and mass

m

. The bat can only rotate around an axis perpendicular to the axis of the bat that is located at its end. The bat is rotating with an angular velocity

ω

. How far from the end of the bat should the player hit the ball in order to minimize the force with which the bat acts on the player's hands?

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