The motion of a baseball bat in a ballplayer's hands is approximated as a rigidbody motion about an axis through the player's hands, as shown in Figure P1.35. The bat has a centroidal moment of inertia \(I\). The player's "bat speed" is \(\omega\), and the velocity of the pitched ball is \(v\). Determine the distance from the player's hand along the bat where the batter should strike the ball to minimize the impulse felt by the his/her hands. Does the distance change if the player "chokes up" on the bat, reducing the distance from \(G\) to his/her hands.

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