

When a stone is thrown vertically upward and comes back to its initial position, its displacement from the initial position is zero. This means that the stone has reached its maximum height and returned to the ground.
Given that the stone returns to its initial position in 2 seconds, this entire round trip took 2 seconds. Therefore, the stone was at its maximum height halfway through this time interval.
Maximum height is achieved at the midpoint of the motion, which is 1221 of the total time.
Maximum height is reached at 12×221×2 seconds = 1 second.
