#0, Newton Smewton
Posted by Davey Gravy on Dec-18-01 at 08:13 PM
Hi I've been told that Newton's 3rd law says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. How then does anything move? I mean that if say something pushed to the right with such a force then an equal force shall push back to the left and cancel things out, including the movement or displacement. hmm. The situation is identical from any angle. Is this a paradox? Probably not because i'm typing this! (or am I? ha ha) PS My engineering teacher just laughs when I try to explain it to him. Is he mad or am I?
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