To catch a fast-moving softball with your bare hand, you extend ...

[EAugust]

To catch a fast-moving softball with your bare hand, you extend your hand forward just before the catch and then let the ball ride backward with your hand. Doing this reduces the catching force because the
 
  A) relative velocity is less.
  B) relative velocity is more.
  C) time of catch is increased.
  D) time of the catch is decreased.
  E) none of the above

Question 2

Human reaction times are worsened by alcohol. How much further (in feet) would a drunk driver's car travel before he hits the brakes than a sober driver's car?
 
  Assume that both are initially traveling at 50.0 mi/h and their cars have the same acceleration while slowing down, and that the sober driver takes 0.33 s to hit the brakes in a crisis, while the drunk driver takes 1.0 s to do so. (5280 ft = 1 mi)

[irishcancer18]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

49 ft

[EAugust]

TYSM

[6ana001]

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