Question $5$

$1$ pts

A boy throws a steel ball straight up$.$ Consider the motion of the ball only after it has left the boy's hand but before it touches the ground and assume that forces exerted by the air are negligible. For these conditions, the force$($s$)$ acting on the ball is $($are$)$:

a downward force of gravity along with a steadily decreasing upward force.

a steadily decreasing upward force from the moment the ball leaves the boy's hand until it reaches its highest point; on the way down there is a steadily increasing downward force.

an almost constant downward force of gravity along with an upward force that steadily decreases until the ball reaches its highest point, after which there is only the constant downward force of gravity.

a constant downward force of gravity only.