Which of the following is not an example of projectile motion?

A hot-air balloon drifting toward Earth.

A volleyball served over a net.

Which of the following does not exhibit parabolic motion?

A flat piece of paper is released from a window.

A baseball is thrown to home plate.

A frog is jumping from land into the water.

A basketball is thrown into a hoop.

Which of the following exhibits parabolic motion?

a train moving along a flat track

What is the path of a projectile (in the absence of air resistance)?

Projectiles do not follow a predictable path.

What results from multiplying or dividing vectors by scalars?

vectors if multiplied or scalars if divided

A passenger on a bus moving east sees a man standing on a curb. From the passenger's perspective, the man appears to

move west at a speed that is equal to the bus's speed.

move west at a speed that is less than the bus's speed

move east at a speed that is equal to the bus's speed.

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