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I believe it was the summer of 2001 that I made a trip to Peru for my work. I was a private contractor doing automation engineering and... -
tellmesomething replied to the thread B Why Does a Spring Return to Its Original Position After Being Stretched?.I obviously still have a long way to go to become like yourself and others on this site, but thanks:angel:
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Your hand is the source of the applied force. Why would the applied force remain after its source leaves? -
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It doesn’t require a force to move in a straight line at a constant speed. That is Newton’s 1st law. When you stop pushing then the...
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The force that you apply deforms the crystals that form the metal. The reactive force is directly proportional to that deformation...
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When you stop pushing an object on a frictionless surface, the net force goes to zero, so the object moves at constant speed. But when...
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tellmesomething replied to the thread B Why Does a Spring Return to Its Original Position After Being Stretched?.this was possibly the dumbest question i asked on here, at that time i had just started learning physics and had very wrong...
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This is not how the world works. You are in good company: Aristotle made the same wrong assumption. It was shown incorrect by Isaac Newton
