Describe the acceleration of a ball being thrown up into the air and caught. No initial speed or time given.?

Question

A ball is thrown up into the air and then caught. Describe the acceleration of the ball from when it leaves the hand until it is caught.

Answer 1

Assuming there is no air resistance.

After the ball leaves the hand,  the acceleration remains constant. i.e. it is 9.8 m/sec^2 directed vertically downwards, and stays at this value until the ball is caught.

This is rather different to what happens to the velocity and displacement during this journey.

Answer 2

the ball is accelerating towards earth at an approximate rate of 9.81 meters per second squared (neglecting air resistance).

Answer 3

the accn slowly decreases  comes to zero n starts increassing in opp. direction in d graph...

Answer 4

Acceleration is solely decided by the net resultant force on the object.so while goin up the ball experiences earths pulltowards it and wind resisitance again towards the earth,

while coming down,earths pull and wind resistance in the upward direction,but earths pull in normal cases will overcome resistance and net pull downwards.

when the ball touches the hand of the catcher,the man has to apply force in the opposite direction clearly,so its towards the sky or vertically up..

So,

From the starting till the time the ball touches the hand of the catcher,the acceleration will be towards the earth,

but when the ball touches the palm of the catcher,acceleration will be towards the sky or opposing the motion of the ball.

Answer 5

well, assuming it is thrown straight up into the air and neglecting air resistance, gravity is the only force working against the ball.  it will decelerate at 9.8 meters per second squard...in other words it slows down an additional 9.8 meters per second each second.

eventually the ball with reach its maximum height and fall back to earth accelerating at a speed of, you guessed it, 9.8 meters per second squared.

Answer 6

if you throw it UP into the air, is it ever accelerating?