Question

A woman throws a baseball straight up into the air. what is the baseball's acceleration at its highest point?

Answer 1

After the ball leaves the woman's hand, the only relevant force acting on the ball is the gravity, which produces an acceleration of a=g=9.81 m/s^2 on the baseball, directed downward.
Gravity acts on the ball for the whole duration of the motion, so the acceleration of the ball is
`g=9.81 m/s^2` at every point of the motion, and therefore also when the baseball is at its highest point.