Imagine that someone is looking out of the top floor window of a skyscraper with a brick in his hand. At the same instant, someone else is looking out of the window on the floor
below, also holding a brick. If both bricks were dropped at the same instant, would the
distance between them increase, decrease, or remain the same over time? Why?

Answerboth technicians (a) and (b);

The figure is missing but we can answer anyway.the correct answer is "releasing the string". in fact, when the person is holding the bow and the arrow, the kinetic energy of the arrow is still zero (because the arrow is not moving). the moment the arrow is released, it acquires a velocity v, so its kinetic energy will become different from zero: where m is the mass of the arrow and v its velocity.  all the other options, instead, do not increase the kinetic energy of the system: -  pulling farther back on the string : this will just increase the elastic potential energy of the system-  holding the arrow higher: this will increase the gravitational potential energy of the system (which is given by u=mgh, where h is the height above the ground)-  decreasing the mass of the arrow: this will decrease the gravitational potential energy of the system (which is given by u=mgh, where m is the mass)

Because its not moving at that time hope u understand