Touching Forces

A contact force is from

• objects physically touching

• far apart objects

• not touching object

• always a pull

The three examples pictured are of

• Applied Force

• Normal Force

• Friction

• Magnetism

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The contact forces are:

• Applied force, friction, gravity, electricity, magnetism

• Applied force and normal force

• Applied force, normal force and friction

• Normal force, friction, and gravity

______________ is a force that always acts in the direction opposite of motion.

• applied

• friction

• gravity

• normal

A baseball struck by a bat flies away from the batter because of:

• Normal force

• Friction

• Electrical Force

• Applied Force

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Normal force is always __________________ to the surface supporting an object

• prependicular

• sideways

• above

• less than

The force that resists sliding between two touching objects is called _____________________

• normal force

• contact force

• non-contact force

• friction