Question

Robert is baseball player and she’s practicing her swing in the batting cages. The bat she’s using has a mass of 850 g and a radius of gyration is 0.575 m. On her first wing, the bat is traveling at 36 rad/s at the instant it makes contact with the ball (the bat isn’t moving at the beginning of her swing) The entire swing lasts 0.30 s. What is the average torque Cheyenne produces during the swing?

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