Question

A ball is dropped from the roof of the A200 building. How fast is a traveling 0.5 seconds later?

Answer 1

ANYTHING that's dropped near the Earth's surface and isn't affected by air resistance falls 9.8 m/s faster at any time than it did 1 second earlier.

0.5 second after it was dropped with zero speed, it's falling at

(0.5) x (9.8 m/s) = 4.9 m/s .

It makes no difference which building it was dropped from.