When released from certain height why do objects tend to fall vertically downwards?

A body released from rest a certain height was observed to cover 78.4 m in the last two seconds before hitting the ground. Find the height from which it was realesed. (g = 9.8 m//s^2)

Give scientific reasons. Any object on earth falls vertically downward and not in any other direction.

A man standing on the roof of a house of height h throws one particle vertically downwards and another particle horizontally with the same velocity u. The ratio of their velocities when they reach the earth's surface will be

Statement-1 : The stream of water flowing at high speed from a garden hose pipe tends to spread like a foundtion when held vertically up, but tends to narrow down when held vertically down. Statement-2 : In any steady flow of an incompressible fluid, the volume flow rate of the fluid remain constant.

A child travelling in a minibus accidentally drops a bottle out of the window. If the bus is moving in forward direction and bottle at the moment of falling is directed vertically downward, then the correct path that the bottle takes in falling to ground is

Two particles A and B having different masses are projected from a tower with same speed. A is projected vertically upward and B vertically downward. On reaching the ground

What does the stones maximum height depend on when it thrown vertically upward direction?

A stone of mass 2 kg is falling from a certain height.find the force of attraction between the Earth and the stone.Also,find the acceleration.

An iron ball of mass 3 kg is released from a height of 125 m and falls freely to the ground. Assuming that the value of g is 10 m//s^(2) , calculate time taken by the ball to reach the ground

An iron ball of mass 3 kg is released from a height of 125 m and falls freely to the ground. Assuming that the value of g is 10 m//s^(2) , calculate velocity of the ball on reaching the ground