Question

g A ball is tossed straight up from the surface of a small, spherical asteroid with no atmosphere. The ball rises to a height equal to the asteroid's radius and then falls straight down toward the surface of the asteroid. What forces, if any, act on the ball while it is on the way up

Answer 1

Answer:

Only a decreasing gravitational force that acts downward

Explanation:

The gravitational force is the gravitational pull which attract a mass of smaller size by the mass of a bigger size.  It is the force which attract two masses close to each other.

In the context, when a ball is tossed up from the surface of an asteroid that have no atmosphere, the ball rises up and then falls back to the surface of the asteroid. The ball falls back because the gravitational pull of the asteroid pulls back the ball to its surface. Thus a decreasing gravitational force acts on the ball in the downward direction while the ball is in its way up.