PLEASE HELP. 1. A baseball pitcher throws a fastball at a speed of 50.0 m/s. The acceleration occurs as the pitcher holds the ball in his hand and moves it through an almost straight-line distance of 4.2 m. Calculate the acceleration,
assuming it is uniform. Compare this acceleration to the acceleration due to gravity, 9.8 m/s?

initial speed when it is dropped is 150 ft/s

now at the same moment the acceleration due to gravity is perpendicular to its velocity

so as we know that

now we have centripetal acceleration a = 32 ft/s^2 as its perpendicular to velocity

while tangential acceleration at the same moment will be zero

so

now radius of curvature is given as

so the radius of curvature just after it is dropped is 703.125 ft