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𝑭𝟏𝟐 = −𝑭 𝟐𝟏
EXAMPLE OF THE APPLICATION OF
NEWTON'S THIRD LAW IN LIFE
When a man jumps out of a boat to the bank of river,
the boat moves backwards because the man pushes
the boat with his foot in backward direction and
boat exerts equal force on man in forward direction
which enables him to move forward.
Gravity, also called gravitation, in mechanics, the universal
force of attraction acting between all matter. It is by far the
weakest known force in nature and thus plays no role in
determining the internal properties of everyday matter. On the
other hand, through its long reach and universal action, it
controls the trajectories of bodies in the solar system and
elsewhere in the universe and the structures and evolution of
stars, galaxies, and the whole cosmos. We are well aware that
all objects are attracted to the Earth. The attractive force exerted
by the Earth on an object is called the force of gravity Fg.
Newton's Law of Gravity says a lot about this force
in a very compact, elegant way. It says
that any piece of matter will feel it whether it is
charged or not (this sets it apart from electrical and
magnetic forces that affect only charged objects).
Gravity depends only the masses of the two
attracting objects and their distance from each other.
We knows that a freely falling object
experiences an accelaration g acting toward the
center of the Earth. Applying Newton’s second
law σ 𝐅 = 𝒎𝐠 to a freely falling object of mass
m, with a = g and σ 𝐅 = Fg,we obtain :
𝐅𝒈 = 𝒎𝐠
The force is directed toward the center of the Earth and this
magnitude is called the weight of the object. Weight is a
force which is measured in Newtons, it is the force of
gravity on an object.