A Stone thrown from the top of a tall building follows a path that is:
Correct answer: D. Parabolic
- A. Circular
- B. Made of two straight line segments
- C. Hyperbolic
- D. Parabolic
Explanation
After being thrown, the stone has constant horizontal velocity and constant downward acceleration due to gravity. Combining these motions gives a quadratic relation between vertical position and horizontal distance, which is a parabolic path. The likely choice is b, because students may picture the initial straight throw and the later fall as two separate straight-line segments.
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