graph what the balls movement might be. Height should be dependent variable and distance should be your independent variable.

Question

you are playing baseball with a friend and accidentally hit the ball up to your roof. A responsible adult agrees to carefully go up the roof and throw the ball down to you. the following questions are about the balls movement from the roof to the ground.

a.) graph what the balls movement might be. Height should be dependent variable and distance should be your independent variable.

Answer 1

Gravity's effect on a ball dropped from a stop can be described by h(t) = -16t², with h the height in feet and t the time in seconds.

After 1 second, the ball will have dropped 16 feet. After 2 seconds, the ball will have dropped 64 feet, and so on.

So, a graph could have t on the horizontal axis and h(t) on the vertical axis. Then the line would curve downward starting from (0, 0), with points on the graph (1, -16), (2, -64), and so on.

Note this doesn't account for horizontal velocity, only vertical velocity due to gravity.