By: Caroline V.

When playing volleyball your hands hit the ball to push it over the net, when doing so there is an equal and opposite reaction. The ball pushes back onto your hands with the same amount of force, just in the opposite direction.

Newton's third law is the most commonly know law. It is easy to remember because it is everywhere. Every action that occurs has and equal and opposite reaction. It happens with everything, books on a table, feet on the ground, and even sleeping. There are so many examples for Newton's third law, any sport or thing you do has and equal and opposite reaction. This website will show you many interaction pairs and how they work. There will be a vocabulary page, for any words unknown, a scince page to describe Newton's third law, and a related links page that can be used to further research Newtom's third law.

The action is books push down on the table and the reaction is the table pushing back up on the books. They are equal in force which makes it so the books do not dent the table. This is one of the simplest of the interaction pairs.

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