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  2. Reactive centrifugal force - Wikipedia

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    Newton's third law of action and reaction states that if the string exerts an inward centripetal force on the ball, the ball will exert an equal but outward reaction upon the string, shown in the free body diagram of the string (lower panel) as the reactive centrifugal force.

  3. Free body diagram - Wikipedia

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    Block on a ramp and corresponding free body diagram of the block. In physics and engineering, a free body diagram (FBD; also called a force diagram) [1] is a graphical illustration used to visualize the applied forces, moments, and resulting reactions on a free body in a given condition. It depicts a body or connected bodies with all the ...

  4. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    The fan and sail example is a situation studied in discussions of Newton's third law. [49] In the situation, a fan is attached to a cart or a sailboat and blows on its sail. From the third law, one would reason that the force of the air pushing in one direction would cancel out the force done by the fan on the sail, leaving the entire apparatus ...

  5. Reaction (physics) - Wikipedia

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    One problem frequently observed by physics educators is that students tend to apply Newton's third law to pairs of 'equal and opposite' forces acting on the same object. [5] [6] [7] This is incorrect; the third law refers to forces on two different objects. In contrast, a book lying on a table is subject to a downward gravitational force ...

  6. Three-body problem - Wikipedia

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    A third body (generally known as a planetoid), assumed massless with respect to the other two, moves in the plane defined by the two revolving bodies and, while being gravitationally influenced by them, exerts no influence of its own. [4]: 11 Per Barrow-Green, "[t]he problem is then to ascertain the motion of the third body." [4]: 11

  7. Centrifugal force - Wikipedia

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    Newton's law of motion for a particle of mass m written in vector form is: = , where F is the vector sum of the physical forces applied to the particle and a is the absolute acceleration (that is, acceleration in an inertial frame) of the particle, given by: = , where r is the position vector of the particle (not to be confused with radius, as ...

  8. File:Newton's Law of Motion Soccer Diagram.pdf - Wikipedia

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    English: In this image, Newton's Laws of Motion are shown throughout common occurrences of a soccer match. In the first law, the ball is influenced by the wind, an unbalanced force, causing it to roll. In the second law, the ball is being kicked causing its acceleration to be dependent on the mass of the soccer ball and the net force of the kick.

  9. Classical central-force problem - Wikipedia

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    Examples include gravity and electromagnetism as described by Newton's law of universal gravitation and Coulomb's law, respectively. The problem is also important because some more complicated problems in classical physics (such as the two-body problem with forces along the line connecting the two bodies) can be reduced to a central-force problem.