Classify Newton's Laws

Which law best describes a satellite orbiting the earth.  (It keeps going around and around...)

• 1st:  Law of Inertia
• 2nd:  Law of Mass and Acceleration (2nd)
• 3rd:  Law of Action & Reaction (3rd)
• Law of Orbits

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Which law best describes pushing a massive truck vs. pushing a smaller car?

• Law of Inertia
• 2nd:  Law of Mass and Acceleration
• 3rd:  Law of Action & Reaction
• Law of Lemon Cars

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Which law best describes a rocket blasting off into space?

• 1st:  Law of Inertia
• 2nd:  Law of Mass and Acceleration
• 3rd:  Law of Action & Reaction
• Rocket Science Law

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Force = 

• Mass divided by Acceleration
• Mass times Speed
• Mass  times  Acceleration
• Acceleration times Distance

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Gravity is an example of a(n)

• Noncontact Force
• Contact Force
• Friction Force
• Balanced Force

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As you push a cart of supplies down the hall and turn a corner, things on the cart fall off, traveling the direction you were just going.  This is an example of which law?

• 1st:  Law of Inertia
• 2nd:  Law of Mass and Acceleration
• 3rd:  Law of Action and Reaction
• The Seatbelt Law of Cartitude

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To get something to move faster, you must push harder.  This is an example of which law?

• 1st:  Law of Inertia
• 2nd:  Law of Mass and Acceleration
• 3rd:  Law of Action and Reaction
• Law of Gravitation

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When you push your knuckles into a table, it hurts your knuckles.  This is an example of which law?

• 1st:  Law of Inertia
• 2nd:  Law of Mass and Acceleration
• 3rd:  Law of Action & Reaction
• Knucklebuster's Law

A ball thrown down to the ground bounces back up.  This is an example of which law?

• 1st:  Law of Inertia
• 2nd:  Law of Mass and Acceleration
• 3rd:  Law of Action & Reaction
• Law of Elastics

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When you put a book on a table, the table pushes back up on the book.  This is an example of which law?

• 1st:  Law of Inertia
• 2nd:  Law of Mass and Acceleration
• 3rd:  Law of Action and Reaction
• 4th: Law of Library Levels