In physics in high school, we learned about forces, and how you need more force to send an object traveling the other way faster. So why can baseball players hit fastballs farther than baseballs on a tee?
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Baseballs are quite elastic. (You can see in slow motion videos of them being hit that they deform a lot when they hit something.) So they would bounce off even a flat wall, retaining and redirecting some of the energy they were thrown with. The faster the ball and the bat are moving, the more energy gets stored up as deformation, and then released to send the ball away.
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