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What is the 3rd of Newton's laws?

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Newton's third law states that when two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. The third law is also known as the law of action and reaction.

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Graham Martin

Whenever two objects interact, they exert equal and opposite forces on each other.

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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So, if you were to apply a force to a football of 50 Newtons, the ball would push back on your foot with a force of 50 Newtons.

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Bahar Emirzade

Hi Reginald, Newton's 3rd law of motion states that any action has an equal opposing force that the object carrying out the action will experience. For instance, if you stand near a wall and push the wall with some force, you will experience the same force you applied on the wall on yourself, which will push you away from the wall.

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For every force in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction

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For Every Action there is equal and opposite reaction

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For every action is an equal and opposite reaction

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Gurjivan Singh Nahal

When two objects interact, they exert forces on each other which are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction

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Mubbashar Rashid

Hi Reginold the third newton law is : For every action there is a equal opposite reaction, :) hope that helps

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Mehboob Elahi

Newton's Third Law: Action & Reaction

His third law states that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. If object A exerts a force on object B, object B also exerts an equal and opposite force on object A.

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Prashant Sundaram

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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Josh Byrom

When two objects interact with one another, they apply a force to each other that is of equal magnitude but opposite direction

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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

For example if I push a box with a force of 30 Newtons to the left but it doesn't move, then the box must be pushing back the the same (equal) 30 Newtons of force to the right (opposite).

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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

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Hi Reginald,


Newton’s third law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Here, action refers to a force. So if an object A exerts a force on object B then object B also exerts an equal but opposite force on object A.


A real life example is when someone throws a ball, they exert a force on the ball and therefore the ball also exerts a force on the person which is equal in size but opposite in direction. So the person also moves back a little . This can be seen clearly if the person is standing on an almost frictionless surface so they can’t stop their movement, for example on ice

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