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
boring_pants t1_iu4qiep wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:17 PM ...by pulling the child back. The wagon is exerting force on the client to keep him from moving forward, and the child is exerting force on the wagon to make it move forward. Permalink 1
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