Question

A baseball is thrown up into the air. In what direction does the velocity vector of the ball point?

Answer 1

Answer: (:

Explanation: upward

For example, when a ball is thrown up in the air, the ball's velocity is initially upward. Since gravity pulls the object toward the earth with a constant acceleration g, the magnitude of velocity decreases as the ball approaches maximum height.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

It must point upwards. How else would the ball begin to move up? What else is acting in such a way that the ball will go up?

There are only two forces acting on the ball

• The force created by your arm to get the ball to move up.
• The gravitational force which will eventually put the ball back to the earth's surface. They cannot both be acting in the same direction, otherwise the ball wouldn't move up at all.