ELI5:A child causes a wagon to accelerate by pulling it with a horizontal force. newton's third law says that the wagon exerts an equal and opposite force on the child. how can the wagon accelerate? Submitted by Gbo_the_beast t3_yfqrxp on October 28, 2022 at 3:12 PM in explainlikeimfive 19 comments 0
Pegajace t1_iu4q09z wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:14 PM Two equal and opposite forces exist, but they need not be applied to the same object. The wagon only experiences one force; that of the child pulling it. The opposite force is applied to the child, not to the wagon. Permalink 6
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