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Cecelia dropped a ball from a height of 2 m. The ball fell in a straight path down to the ground. According to Newton’s universal law of gravitation, which would change the path of the ball so it traces out the widest curved path possible?

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The answer is B). tossing it horizontally at a faster speed. I know because I took the review.
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Answer:

tossing it horizontally at a faster speed

Step-by-step explanation:

The property that objects have to fall when released from a certain height from the ground was well known since ancient times. For much of our history, the free-falling motion of objects was considered natural, ignoring the need for any causative agent. It was not until the seventeenth century that the English scientist Isaac Newton formulated a theory capable of explaining the cause of these movements and describing them precisely: the law of universal gravitation.

Under this law, free fall is a uniformly accelerated motion and causes any object influenced by the acceleration of gravity to move. This explains why the ball, dropped by Cecelia, fell in a straight path to the ground. According to this law, if Cecelia wanted the ball to travel the widest possible path during the fall, she should play the ball horizontally at a faster speed.

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