Answer to Question #90977 in Mechanics | Relativity for Ray

Question

if your in the bed of a truck doing 50 mph and you throw a baseball from the Back of the truck and you throw a 50 mph pitch is the Baseball traveling at 100 mph?

Answer 1

1)if the baseball is flying in the direction of the truck, baseball has 100mph(V₂=V₁+V₂₁=50+50=100)