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It seems that there is a presumption that a permanent [cannot be stopped']
force necessarily causes movement. It does not.
On the other hand, a force which may be switched on or off may cause
motion. Or not!
Brian W
On 1/23/2018 1:44 PM, Todd Pedlar wrote:
That's the problem with a lot of the language of such questions - the_______________________________________________
phrase "that cannot be stopped" is meaningless. I just don't know what
those words add to the context of any particular problem.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:42 PM, Philip Keller <
pkeller@holmdelschools.org>
wrote:
What is a force that "cannot be stopped"? I have no idea what that phrase
means in this context. Can anyone give me a definition and maybe an
example of a force that cannot be stopped and another example of a force
that can in fact "be stopped"?
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Folkerts, Timothy J <
FolkertsT@bartonccc.edu> wrote:
Concrete example: a 10 newton force which cannot be stopped, bears
Forum for Physics Educatorsdirectly on a 1000 kg marble block anchored in the substrate rock. The
block cannot be moved.
What happens?The 10^3 kg block anchored to the 6x10^24 kg earth accelerates at
1.7x10^-24 m/s^2.
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