A spring cannon fires a marble at 45 ° up from horizontal going 2.0 m/s and starting 1.0 m above the floor.  Assuming that the marble does not hit anything on its way to the floor, and ignoring air drag, which of the following is true of the | vx | (magnitude of the horizontal velocity component) and | vy | (magnitude of the vertical velocity component) of the marble as it goes up (but has not yet reached its maximum height)? a) | vx | Decreasing & | vy | Decreasing b)  | vx | Constant & | vy | Decreasing c) | vx | Decreasing & | vy | Constant d) | vx | Constant & | vy | Constant e) None of these.

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A spring cannon fires a marble at 45 ° up from horizontal going 2.0 m/s and starting 1.0 m above the floor.  Assuming that the marble does not hit anything on its way to the floor, and ignoring air drag, which of the following is true of the | vx | (magnitude of the horizontal velocity component) and | vy | (magnitude of the vertical velocity component) of the marble as it goes up (but has not yet reached its maximum height)?

a) | vx | Decreasing & | vy | Decreasing
b)  | vx | Constant & | vy | Decreasing
c) | vx | Decreasing & | vy | Constant
d) | vx | Constant & | vy | Constant
e) None of these.
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