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Homework Statement
These are two conceptual questions we were given recently. It's strange how mathematically I regularly do much harder problems but these caught me out a bit
Q1.
If a one snooker ball hits another ball moving at constant speed, why does the second ball move? Surely due to Newton's second law as it is not accelerating there is no force?
Q2.
If by Newton's third law every action has an equal and opposite reaction, why does a stone thrown at a window go through it if thrown hard enough and not simply bounce off?
Homework Equations
F=ma
The Attempt at a Solution
For the first one I think perhaps it's due to imparting an impulse?
For the second one something to do with net forces?
These are confusing me more than they should I know!
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