Monday, May 20, 2013

Newton’s 3rd Law vs. Algodoo


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his video shows two boulders of equal size, but different mass. When they collide, they each exert a force that is equal in magnitude to what the other exerts, but the reason that the lighter boulder gets pushed back farther is because it has less mass, so it has less inertia than the heavier one, which means that it will be pushed farther and faster than the heavier one.  

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