Newton’s Three Laws of Motion Quiz

You are waiting in line to use the diving board at your local pool. While watching people dive into the pool from the board, you realize that using a diving board to spring into the air before a dive.

• First Law

• Second Law

• Third Law

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If you slide a hockey puck on ice, eventually it will stop, because of friction on the ice. It will also stop if it hits something, like a player’s stick or a goalpost.

• First Law

• Second Law

• Third Law

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It is easier to push an empty shopping cart than a full one, because the full shopping cart has more mass than the empty one. This means that more force is required to push the full shopping cart.

• First Law

• Second Law

• Third Law

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If you kicked a ball in space, it would keep going forever, because there is no gravity, friction or air resistance going against it. It will only stop going in one direction if it hits something like a meteorite or reaches the gravity field of another planet.

• First Law

• Second Law

• Third Law

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If you are driving in your car at a very high speed and hit something, like a brick wall or a tree, the car will come to an instant stop, but you will keep moving forward. This is why cars have airbags, to protect you from smashing into the windscreen. (Inertia)

• First Law

• Second Law

• Third Law

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When you jump off a small rowing boat into water, you will push yourself forward towards the water. The same force you used to push forward will make the boat move backwards.

• First Law

• Second Law

• Third Law

When air rushes out of a balloon, the opposite reaction is that the balloon flies up.

• First Law

• Second Law

• Third Law

If you use the same force to push a truck and push a car, the car will have more acceleration than the truck, because the car has less mass. This means that if an object has less mass it will move faster and vice versa.

• First Law

• Second Law

• Third Law

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When a firefighter turns on a hose, water comes out of the nozzle in one direction, and the hose moves back in the opposite direction. The water is forced out of the hose. A reaction force pushes the hose backward. Firefighters must apply a force to the water hose to prevent it from flying backward when the water comes out.

• First Law

• Second Law

• Third Law

In golf game, acceleration of the golf ball is directly proportional to the force with which it is hit by the golf stick.

• First Law

• Second Law

• Third Law

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