hello, if a ball is hit with a bat, is it third law or second law? i understand,

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hello, if a ball is hit with a bat, is it third law or second law? i understand, i think it's third because the ball would usually move in teh opposite dirction, but not always. if it was to be third law, then wouldn't the ball, which usually has half the mass of the bat, have to be moving twice as fast as the bat to have equal and opposite forces? like, mass of ball times acceleration of ball == mass of bat times acceleration of bat, is only possible if the numbers are inversely proportional. on the question, it doesn't have any numbers and only asks theoretically. what if ti had hit a foul ball and the ball continued in teh same direction as it was already going and the bat merely pushed it along? i am confused when tehre is not enough information like that.

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Bat hitting the ball is a small transformation of Newton's second law. You can calculate the force on the bat as F = mass of bat * change in speed of the bat/(time taken) and also on the ball in the similar way. This deals with impulse relations

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