Explain why you would sooner be hit by a ping pong ball vs a baseball. Use all the terms: force mass and acceleration!!

Because the ping pong ball has a lesser mass than a baseball; hence the ping pong ball will accelerate faster than the baseball when a constant force is applied to both

Explanation:

The force applied to an object is a product of its mass and acceleration i.e. F=ma. According to Newton's second law of motion, the relationship between the mass of an object and its acceleration when force is applied to it was described.

In a summary, the second law states that that the acceleration of an object increases with increased force and decreases with increased mass. This means that the more the mass of an object, the greater the force needed to make it accelerate and also the more the mass, the lesser it accelerates.

In this case, a ping pong ball has a lesser mass compared to a baseball, hence, it will accelerate faster than the baseball assuming an equal force was applied. Since the ping pong ball will accelerate faster, it will hit a person faster than the baseball.

an individual’s sex (i.e., whether they are a male or female) is determined by the sex chromosomes. most people have two sex chromosomes, one that is inherited from their mother and one that is inherited from their father. typically, females have two x chromosomes (xx) and males have one x chromosome and one y chromosome (xy). conditions caused by changes (“mutations”) in genes located on the x chromosome are considered x-linked.

x-linked recessive inheritance

most x-linked conditions are recessive. this means that in a person with two x chromosomes (most females), both copies of a gene (i.e., one on each x chromosome) must have a change or mutation whereas in a person with one x chromosome (most males), only one copy of a gene must have a mutation. a female with a mutation in one copy of a gene on the x chromosome is said to be a “carrier” for an x-linked condition. a male with a mutation in a gene on the x chromosome is typically affected with the condition. because females have two copies of the x chromosome and males have only one x chromosome, x-linked recessive diseases are more common among males than females. however, x-linked recessive diseases can occur in both males and females.

for x-linked recessive disorders, an unaffected carrier mother who has a mutation in a gene on the x chromosome can transmit either the x chromosome with this mutation or a “normal” x chromosome to her children. if the father is unaffected, none of her daughters will be affected and all of her daughters will be unaffected—since they will inherit at least one normal x chromosome from their father. however, each daughter will have a 50% chance of being an unaffected carrier like her mother and a 50% chance of both x chromosomes being normal.