If you drop an object, it will accelerate downward at a rate of about 10 m/s2. If you instead throw it downward, its acceleration (in the absence of air resistance) will be

A) less than 10 m/s2.
B) 10 m/s2.
C) greater than 10 m/s2.


B

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