AP Physics 1· difficulty 1/5
A boy pushes a shopping cart forward with . By Newton's third law, the cart exerts a force on the boy of
— the boy pushes but the cart cannot push back
Some amount less than
backward
forward
Explanation
Newton's 3rd law pairs are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction: the cart pushes the boy backward with .
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