Description We shoot a ball into the air.

Questions

A) What is the highest point in the flight of the ball?
B) What is the initial speed of the ball?
C) How long does the ball take to reach the very top?
D) If you doubled the initial speed, how high would the ball go?
     Try double the initial velocity! [Watch the vertical scale!]
     Or go back to the original conditions.
E) What happens to the time it takes to reach the top if the intitial velocity is doubled?

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