Action-Reaction
Summary
- Newton's third law of motion (also known as the law of action-reaction) states that…
- for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
- A force is an interaction between two objects.
- Forces always occur in pairs that…
- are arbitrarily assigned the names action and reaction
- are of the same type
- have the same magnitude
- act on different objects
- act in opposite directions
- may have different effects (since acceleration is inversely proportional to mass)
- Supplementary Materials
- Summary as a concept map
- Original statement in Latin from Newton's Principia with English translation