ELI5:A child causes a wagon to accelerate by pulling it with a horizontal force. newton's third law says that the wagon exerts an equal and opposite force on the child. how can the wagon accelerate? Submitted by Gbo_the_beast t3_yfqrxp on October 28, 2022 at 3:12 PM in explainlikeimfive 19 comments 0
Luckbot t1_iu4pzxx wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:14 PM The force that the wagon pushes on the child is called "inertial force", it is simply the resistance to being accelerated instantly. Permalink 1
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