Answer:
, downward
Explanation:
There is only one force acting on the ball during its motion: the force of gravity, which is given by
where
m is the mass of the ball
is the acceleration of gravity (downward)
According to Newton's second law,
where F is the net force on the object and a is its acceleration. Rearranging for a,
As we said, the only force acting on the ball is gravity, so F = mg and the acceleration of the ball is:
Therefore, the ball has a constant acceleration of downward for the entire motion.
This could be Hubble's law, or something related to it. I think there's a possibly Doppler RED SHIFT in the optical spectra of stars etc as observed on the earth. It seems that they are accelerating away from the earth, and that the further away they are the faster they are moving.
It seems that this has been connected to the idea of "The Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe which seems to have superceded Professor Sir Fred Hoye's Steady State theory of the universe.
There's some Special Relativity in this lot, too.
The gravitational forces between the Earth and Moon are greatest when the two bodies are closest together. That happens every 27.32 days, when the Moon is at the perigee of its orbit.
Even if this happened at the same time in every orbit, the date would change, because there are not 27.32 days in a month.
But it doesn't happen at the same time in every orbit ... the Moon's perigee precesses around its orbit, on account of the gravitational forces toward the Earth, the Sun, Venus, Mars, and the other planets.