Newton's Third Law

When you jump up, you push the earth downwards. Why can't you tell that the earth has moved?

• The force of you jumping up doesn't actually push the earth down.

• The earth has much more mass so it doesn't move at all

• The earth is firmly rooted

• The earth has much more mass so you can't tell that it moved

When you hit a tennis ball with a racket...

• The ball exerts more force on the racket

• The ball and racket exert the same force on each other

• The racket exerts more force on the ball

• It depends on how hard you hit it

How is this an example of Newton’s Third law?

• Only the ball is using the head

• They are both exerting an equal force on each other

• Only the head is pushing the ball

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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

An archer shoots an arrow. The action force is the bowstring against the arrow, the reaction force is...

• Air resistance against the bow
• the arrow's push against the bowstring
• the grip of the archer's hand on the bow

What is the reaction force to a foot pushing down on the floor?

• The foot going through the floor
• The floor pushing back against the foot
• The floor breaking to the foot

When you push a boat off from the dock, you are demonstrating Newton's 3rd Law of Motion. It simply states that for every action there is an equal and opposite _______________?

• Motion

• Reaction

• Change

• Push

Newton's third law states that any action will have a(n) _______ and ______ reaction

• Equal and similar
• Equal and opposite
• Equal and different
• Greater and opposite

Which of Newton's laws are illustrated with a rocket launch?

• 1st Law, the Law of Inertia. 
• 2nd Law, the Law of Acceleration.
• 3rd Law, the Law of Action Reaction
• The Law of Conservation of Mass

Newton's Third Law says that forces must always occur in _____.

• pairs

• groups of 20 or more

• individual circumstances

• friction