Question

What is the horizontal acceleration of a ball that is launched horizontally with a velocity of 5.6 m/s?

Answer 1

Answer:

Once the ball leaves the launcher, there's no horizontal force on it.  

So its horizontal acceleration is zero.  Its initial horizontal velocity

doesn't matter.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

The horizontal acceleration of the ball is zero.

Explanation:

• When a ball or any other body or object is launched horizontally the only force acting on the it is gravity that will be acting in vertically downward direction.
• So for a ball to have an acceleration, a force must act on it according to the Newton's second law of motion ( F=ma).
• But in this situation there is no force acting in the horizontal direction on the ball.
• So the net acceleration of the ball in the horizontal direction is zero for ball.
• The ball only has a constant velocity of 5.6m/s but no acceleration.

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