Tuesday, 8 March 2016

1.24 demonstrate an understanding of Newton’s third law

Newtons third law states that 'each force has an equal and opposite force'. one way in which this could be demonstrate is through ice skating. if you throw a snowball whilst you are on ice skates, you  involuntarily go backwards a little. This is newtons third law in action. When you throw the snowball, you are exerting a force forward, at the same time an equal force is acting in the opposite direction, usually this force is hardly noticeable, if all. Since you are standing on ice that has very little friction, you will go backward.

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