If I throw something upwards will the gravity slow it down faster?

Question

So idk if this makes sense so I’m going to use numbers. If I take something, and shoot it let’s say a bullet. Into the air. The first second it will be slowing down at 9.81m/s if I’m not mistaking because gravity is pulling it down that fast. At the 2nd second. Will gravity be pulling it down at 9.81m/s still or will it go to 19.62m/s? Like will the speed be stacking essentially for how fast it slows down?

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Answer 1

>So idk if this makes sense so I’m going to use numbers. If I take something, and shoot it let’s say a bullet. Into the air. The first second it will be slowing down at 9.81m/s if I’m not mistaking because gravity is pulling it down that fast. At the 2nd second. Will gravity be pulling it down at 9.81m/s still or will it go to 19.62m/s? Like will the speed be stacking essentially for how fast it slows down?

You’re dealing in accelerations here, not in velocities. If you throw an object upward it will be slowed down (decelerated) at a rate of 9.81 m/s^2 (meters per second **per second**), meaning it will lose 9.81 m/s of velocity every second.

So if you accelerate the object upwards so that it has a velocity of 9.81m/s when it leaves your hand, it will have a velocity of 0 after one second (at its maximum height) and will hit your hand at -9.81m/s velocity after two seconds.

Answer 2

>So idk if this makes sense so I’m going to use numbers. If I take something, and shoot it let’s say a bullet. Into the air. The first second it will be slowing down at 9.81m/s if I’m not mistaking because gravity is pulling it down that fast. At the 2nd second. Will gravity be pulling it down at 9.81m/s still or will it go to 19.62m/s? Like will the speed be stacking essentially for how fast it slows down?

You’re dealing in accelerations here, not in velocities. If you throw an object upward it will be slowed down (decelerated) at a rate of 9.81 m/s^2 (meters per second **per second**), meaning it will lose 9.81 m/s of velocity every second.

So if you accelerate the object upwards so that it has a velocity of 9.81m/s when it leaves your hand, it will have a velocity of 0 after one second (at its maximum height) and will hit your hand at -9.81m/s velocity after two seconds.