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Flash Animation 14: Gravity, Squash, and Stretch

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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Animating the Pull of Gravity on the Bouncing Ball: Acceleration

So now the snowball decelerates as it reaches the peak of its arc. To make it accelerate as gravity pulls it towards the ground again, click on any of the frames for your second motion tween, controlling the distance between the peak and the ground--and set the Ease value to a negative, causing it to ease out of the animation and move more slowly as it approaches the end.
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