Chapter 10, Problem 44RE

Mickey Mantle is recognized as baseball's unofficial king of long home runs. On April 17, 1953 Mantle blasted a pitch by Chuck Stobbs of the hapless Washington Senators out of Griffith Stadium, just clearing the 50 ft wall at the 391 ft marker in left center. Assuming that the ball left the bat at a height of 3 ft above the ground and at an angle of $45°,$ use the parametric equations in Exercise 43 with $g=32{\text{ ft/s}}^2$ to find

(a) the speed of the ball as it left the bat

(b) the maximum height of the ball

(c) the distance along the ground from home plate to where the ball struck the ground.