Newton's Third Law of Motion
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- Not completed: Force and Net Force
- Not completed: Newton's Second Law of Motion
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Learning Objectives
- Students will identify action-reaction force pairs
- Students will understand that forces always occur in pairs
- Students will apply Newton's third law to explain phenomena
Core Concepts
- Action-reaction: forces always occur in pairs
- Equal in magnitude, opposite in direction
- Force pairs act on different objects