Projectile Motion: You throw a rock horizontally off a cliff with a speed of 20 m/s and no significant air resistance. After 2.0 s, the magnitude of the velocity of the rock is closest to

A. 28 m/s
B. 20 m/s
C. 40 m/s
D. 37 m/s


Answer: A

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