real life examples of newton's third law of moton?

Question

For every action force, there is a simultaneous reaction force equal in in magnitude but in the opposite direction.

Would a catapult be an example of Newton's third law? can someone please give me real life applications, used in society technology or envrionment. Thanks

Answer 1

think of the recoil in a gun when firing a bullet.. the action is the bullet, the equal and opposite reaction is the recoil..

or even take for example pushing someone while standing on oil/ice. the action is that person moving due to your push, the reaction is you moving/falling in the opposite direction yourself.

Answer 2

Um, well, if I remember right it says that "an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force". Well, an example would be, if you push a grocery cart across a level parking lot as hard as you can, it will go far. But slowly friction (friction being the "outside force") would slow it down and eventually the cart would stop moving altogether. Also, if you throw a ball in the air with a lot of force, it will go in the same direction for a while until gravity and air resistence(the oustside forces) slow it down. However, if you were to do this on the moon, the ball would continue moving because there wouldn't be the gravity and air resistence to stop it.

Answer 3

Look when you stand on the floor why dony u sink in the ground . Because of the reaction force . Your weight is equal to the reaction force .

When you hit someone really hard , sometimes you get hurt yourself , this is another example of the Newton third law of motion .

Answer 4

fill a baloon with air and let go of the mouth of the balloon..
the air coming out backwards will force the balloon forwards

Answer 5

Pushing a car.

Answer 6

1) firing a gun
2) shooting using a bow and arrow
3) pushing against a wall
4) walking and running

Answer 7

She is attracted to him - he is attracted to her.

Well, why not?