Question

When you throw a ball up in the air, it travels up and then stops instantaneously before falling back down. At the point where it stops and changes directions to fall back down is

Answer 1

The ball stops instantaneously at the topmost point of the motion.

Step-by-step explanation:

Assume we have thrown a ball up in the air. For that we have given a force on the ball and it acquires an initial velocity in the upward direction.

The forces that resist the motion of the ball in the upward direction are the force of gravity and air resistance. The ball will instantaneously come to rest when the velocity of the ball reduces to zero.

The two forces acting in the downward direction reduces its speed continuously and it becomes zero at the topmost point.