Which Law?

A frog leaping upward off his lily pad is pulled downwards by gravity and lands on another lily pad instead of continuing on in a straight line.

• Newton's 1st Law

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Newton's 3rd Law

As the fuel in a rocket ignites, the force of the gas expansion and explosion pushes out the back of the rocket and pushes the rocket forward.

• Newton's 1st Law

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Newton's 3rd Law

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When you are standing up in a subway train, and the train suddenly stops, your body continues to go foward.

• Newton's 1st Law

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Newton's 3rd Law

After you start up your motorbike, as you give it more gas, it goes faster.

• Newton's 1st Law

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Newton's 3rd Law

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A pitched baseball goes faster than one that is gently thrown.

• Newton's 1st Law

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Newton's 3rd Law

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5

A swimmer pushes water back with her arms, but her body moves forward.

• Newton's 1st Law

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Newton's 3rd Law

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As an ice skater pushes harder with his leg muscles, he begins to move faster.

• Newton's 1st Law

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Newton's 3rd Law

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When Bobby, age 5, and his dad are skipping pebbles on the pond, the pebbles that Bobby's dad throws go farther and faster than his.

• Newton's 1st Law

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Newton's 3rd Law

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

When you paddle a canoe, the canoe goes forward.

• Newton's 1st Law

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Newton's 3rd Law

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5

A little girl who has been pulling a sled behind her in the snow is crying because when she stopped to tie her hat on, the sled kept moving and hit her in the back of her legs.

• Newton's 1st Law

• Newton's 2nd Law

• Newton's 3rd Law