When you drop an object, it accelerates downward at a rate of 10 m/s2. If you instead throw it downward, its acceleration (after leaving your hand and with no air resistance) will be
A. exactly zero.
B. 10 m/s2.
C. less than 10 m/s2.
D. greater than 10 m/s2.
Answer: B
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