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A baseball goes from zero to 38 m/s in 0.157 s. what is its average acceleration? answer in units of m/s 2 .

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since acceleration is measured in whole seconds, you need to know how many times 0.157seconds goes into 1 second... (just divide 1 by 0.157) = 6.369

So if in 0.157seconds the baseball went from zero to 38m/s, then to find out how fast it would be traveling after one whole second just multiply 38m/s by 6.369

38m/s x 6.369 = 242.038 m/s^2
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