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Anonymous asked in Education & ReferenceOther - Education · 1 decade ago

I bet you can't answer this Physics question:-?

This is purely based on newtons third law :-Everyday,a man used to exploit his horse my overburdening it with

workload.so,the hosrse tries to escape from him.one day,while the man is loading the goods on the cart,the horse

reads newtons third law of motion on a wall.when asks the horse to move,it refuses saying that every action has an

equal and opposite reaction,so if it tries to move,the cart will pull it back,according to the 3rd law.The man is

perplexed.At that time,there is a Physics professor who is passing by that road.The man tells him the problem.Then

the professor says something to the horse and it agrees to move.What did the professor explain to the horse(some

physics matter) to make it agree to move?this question is not silly and has a logical approach.The answer is based

on the 3rd law.

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  • Gersin
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The horse action will have an opposite reaction from the men, he will beat the horse and he will have to move, even if he want or not.

  • 1 decade ago

    It has to do with action and reaction pairs. To see if the cart accelerates (or is moved) we must look at only the forces on the cart, and ignore the forces on the horse. So, if there is a net force on the cart (by the horse) the cart will accelerate. It does not matter that the cart is exerting an equal and opposite force on the horse.

  • uplate
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    the professor might well have reminded the horse that once inertia is broken then the cart which is attatched to the horse is following the same action as the horse whilst the goods being unattatched will have an opposite reaction and fall off, hopefully on top of the exploitative man

  • 1 decade ago

    some forces result from contact interactions (normal, frictional, tensional, and applied forces are examples of contact forces) and other forces are the result of action-at-a-distance interactions (gravitational, electrical, and magnetic forces). According to Newton, whenever objects A and B interact with each other, they exert forces upon each other. When you sit in your chair, your body exerts a downward force on the chair and the chair exerts an upward force on your body. There are two forces resulting from this interaction - a force on the chair and a force on your body. These two forces are called action and reaction forces and are the subject of Newton's third law of motion. Formally stated, Newton's third law is:

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

    SO HE MUST HAVE TOLD THE HORSE THAT THE WHEELES OF THE CART TAKE LESS FORCE TO MOVE THAN HE HAS POWER.?

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  • 1 decade ago

    The equal and opposite forces referred to in Newton's third law of motion are acting on different objects. The horse will pull on the cart and the cart will pull on the horse. The cart will have an unbalanced net force acting on it (if neglecting friction) and would accelerate.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    A force is a push or a pull upon an object which results from its interaction with another object. Forces result from interactions! The professor explained how the size of the forces on the first object equals the size of the force on the second object. The direction of the force on the first object is opposite to the direction of the force on the second object. Forces always come in pairs - equal and opposite action-reaction force pairs.

  • kja63
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Rats! I thought my "glue factory" answer was definitely right ;-)

    Okay, Newton's Third Law: A force is a push or a pull upon an object which results from its interaction with another object. Forces result from interactions! Some forces result from contact interactions (normal, frictional, tensional, and applied forces are examples of contact forces) and other forces are the result of action-at-a-distance interactions (gravitational, electrical, and magnetic forces). According to Newton, whenever objects A and B interact with each other, they exert forces upon each other. When you sit in your chair, your body exerts a downward force on the chair and the chair exerts an upward force on your body. There are two forces resulting from this interaction - a force on the chair and a force on your body. These two forces are called action and reaction forces and are the subject of Newton's third law of motion. Formally stated, Newton's third law is:

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

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    As the mass of the load is lighter than the horse, it will have greater acceleration which is stated in newton's 2nd law. So, the horse would be able to move.

  • 1 decade ago

    the professor said to the horse that newton also had another law, which said that all objects keep moving until another force is acted upon it, so the load's force would gradually get weaker as the horse pulled it along

  • Baby
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    some times

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