Recent content by Nick PG

haha i feel better now that I understand that, I got so caught up on the homework questions I forgot to look at the sum of the forces as a "net", which could be positive, negative, or zero. thank you for taking the time to clarify this for me

Eventually I would like to go to medical school, but in case it is not for me at the end of they day I decided 6 months ago I wanted an engineering degree to fall back on ( as most pre-meds are biology majors and I don't want to study protists if I do not go to med school). So it turns out I've...

and the object is in equilibrium in that direction?

haha hit the nail on the head there, thank you. I had myself a little "aha" moment. Its not that the individual forces (the normal force or force of gravity acting in the y direction) are equal to zero, but the the net result when you add the two is equal to zero. is that right?

Homework Statement Just my own personal questions concerning Newtons laws. For the most part I grasp all three laws to adequately take care of my homework, but I have some conceptual questions that keep bugging me. when solving diagrams including net forces that are acting on an object, the...