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Many of the FCI questions are IMHO little more than word
games, designed to trick students into answering in terms of
vernacular force (as in causation) rather than mechanical
force (as in Newton's laws). The "right" answer is obvious
to physicists, because we spend all day in physics context.
However, students could reasonably read the question in
another context. I'm not even willing to call the typical
student answers wrong, because the FCI is so grossly context-
dependent. It focuses on the /word/ force rather than any
operational consequences of the concept. So really it should
be called FVI: Force Vocabulary Inventory.