Newton's Laws and Forces

A magician pulls a tablecloth out from under dishes and glasses on a table without disturbing them.

• Newton's 1st Law
• Newton's 2nd Law
• Newton's 3rd Law

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Pushing a child on a swing is easier than pushing an adult on the same swing, because the adult has more mass and requires more force to accelerate.

• Newton's 1st Law
• Newton's 2nd Law
• Newton's 3rd Law

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A football player kicks the ball through the goal posts with their foot and their toes are left stinging.

• Law of Inertia

• Law of Acceleration and Net Force

• Law of Action and Reaction Forces

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My cat eyeballs the christmas tree and decides to apply all of his mass directly to the center of the tree. This force causes the tree to accelerate down towards the ground.

• Law of Inertia

• Law of Acceleration and Net Force

• Law of Action and Reaction Forces

This person bought coffee and put it on the seat next to them. If they stopped quickly and the coffee spilled which law would that represent?

• Newton's 1st Law
• Newton's 2nd Law
• Newton's 3rd Law

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When you step on a Lego. You push on the Lego and the Lego pushes back on you.

• Newton's 1st Law
• Newton's 2nd Law
• Newton's 3rd Law

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"An object in motion (or at rest) will to stay in motion (or at rest) until an outside force acts upon it."

• Newton's 1st Law
• Newton's 2nd Law
• Newton's 3rd Law
• Newton's 4th Law

The force that opposes motion between two surfaces in contact with each other.

• inertia
• friction
• momentum
• gravity

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A Newton is a unit of...

• force
• inertia
• acceleration
• velocity

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The combination of all the forces acting on an object is the...

• net force
• action force
• reaction force
• balance force

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