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An American football lineman reasons that it is senseless
Chapter 4, Problem 19(choose chapter or problem)
An American football lineman reasons that it is senseless to try to out-push the opposing player, since no matter how hard he pushes he will experience an equal and opposite force from the other player. Use Newton’s laws and draw a free-body diagram of an appropriate system to explain how he can still out-push the opposition if he is strong enough.
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QUESTION:
An American football lineman reasons that it is senseless to try to out-push the opposing player, since no matter how hard he pushes he will experience an equal and opposite force from the other player. Use Newton’s laws and draw a free-body diagram of an appropriate system to explain how he can still out-push the opposition if he is strong enough.
ANSWER:Newton’s third law of motion states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction and these forces act on different objects.
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When the lineman pushes the other player, it is an action. The body of the other player will apply a reaction force on the lineman.
To understand, let us draw and explain the free body diagram.