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Action-Reaction
Summary
- Newton's third law of motion (also known as the law of action–reaction) states that …
- for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
- A force is an interaction between two objects.
- Forces always occur in pairs that …
- are arbitrarily assigned the names action and reaction,
- are of the same type,
- have the same magnitude,
- act on different objects,
- act in opposite directions, and
- may have different effects (since acceleration is inversely proportional to mass).
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