Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4, Problem 29CQ
A toy battery-powered tractor pushes a book across a table. Draw separate diagrams of the book and the tractor identifying all of the forces that act upon each object. What is the reaction force described by Newton’s third law of motion for each of the forces that you have drawn?
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