Throwing down

If you drop an object in the absence of air resistance, it accelerates downward at 9.8 m/s². If instead you throw it downward, its downward acceleration after release is

A) smaller than 9.8 m/s².

B) 9.8 m/s².

C) bigger than 9.8 m/s².

D) indeterminate.

Answer

Adapted from Eric Mazur, Peer Instruction, A User's Manual, Prentice-Hall, 1997