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according to newton's first law of motion what is the reason for a ball throwing up in the airfall back to earth

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the force of earth's gravitational field is always directed downwards (towards the center of the earth. When the ball is thrown up, it is going against the earth's gravitational field and so, the earth's gravitational force pulls it back down, accelerating it downwards.
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