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How does a ball move?

Updated: 9/13/2023
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To move a ball, it must be acted on by an outside force. Some mechanical energy will have to be applied to it. There are a number of different forces and a number of different balls. We use a club on a Golf ball. Baseballs are hit with a bat. A tennis ball is hit with a raquet. A soccer ball is struck with a body part. In all cases, the ball is struck and is accelerated by an outside force. This stuff goes back to Newton. Here's the condensed version. If it's at rest, it wants to stay that way. If it's in motion, it wants to stay that way. And either will be the case unless an outside force (sometimes called an unbalanced force) acts to change things. That's Newton's first law or the law of inertia. Apply a force to a ball and it will move.

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