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    Newton's 3rd Law Chair situation

    Homework Statement I would like to ask a question concerning the 3rd law. For example I want to say that I sit on a chair and it breaks. Is it logical to say that " my action force was greater than the chair's reaction force so the chair broke?" If it is not logical to say this, what would...
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    Coming up with a Newton's 2nd law tension problem

    Homework Statement So I am coming up with a word problem dealing with N2L. It goes like this. I have an object on top of a cliff i want to get, so i attach a pulley to the edge of the cliff. Now i tie my self to the object and string it with the pulley. To get the object down I will rappel off...
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    Centripetal Force and Force due to gravity?

    Homework Statement So I'm doing a lab of examining circular motion and centripetal force. My results came out to be that as Fg increases, Fc decreases. My question is if this relationship between Fg and Fc is logical and why? The experiment was conducted in a way that a ball was attached to a...