Let’s assume there is instantaneous acceleration to 55mph when the ball is fired, there is a constant velocity of 55mph, no wind or air resistance, gravity is pulling down at 32ft/s squared, and the driver has a life and doesn’t care about this jack ass question lol.
Due to the balls constant velocity of 55mph and not acceleration the ball is inert.
Here is an example:
We are on Earth which is has an almost constant rotating speed, the Earth is in orbit at an almost constant speed, and the solar system within the galaxy is traveling at an almost constant speed. All of these constant forces do not affect us because they are happening all the time so technically we are inert to these constant forces as we go along our daily lives.
It’s kind of hard to imagine a world where objects are affected by constant velocity because it’s not possible in this universe, if you want to talk about other universes with different laws of physics its hard to understand because they don’t exist in our plane of existence.
Anyway so as the ball is traveling and it is unaffected by the constant velocity so it will shoot back horizontally at 55mph on the line where it is fired and land 101.682feet away (this doesn’t account for the height it was fired at).
x2 = vo2 + 2(a)*(x-xo)
x = ?
xo = 0
vo = 55mph = 80.67 ft/s
a = -32ft/s2
02 = (80.67ft/s)2 + 2(-32ft/s2) * (x – xo)
0 = 6507.64ft2/s2 - 64ft/s2 (x)
-6507.64ft2/s2 = -64xft/s2
101.68ft
This is high school stuff people...
