7.1 Forces and Interactions - 7.3 Identifying Action and Reaction

7.1 Forces and Interactions ­ 7.3 Identifying Action and Reaction.notebook October 20, 2016
Newton's Third Law of Motion ­ Action and Reaction
• force is always part of a mutual action, interaction, that involves another force
• standing against wall, you put force on the wall, wall puts force on you
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Newton's Third Law ­ whenever one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite for on the first object
• action force & reaction force
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Action: Object A exerts a force on object B
Reaction: Object B exerts a force on object A
To every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.
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