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force Any influence that tends to accelerate an object.
weight The force on a body due to the gravitational attraction of another body.
interaction A mutual action between objects where each object exerts an equal and opposite force on the other
newton's 3rd law Whenever one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body exerts an equal and opposite force on the first.
action force One pair of forces described in Newton's 3rd law.
reaction force The force that is equal in strength and opposite in direction to the action force, which acts simultaneously on whatever is exerting the action force.
mass The amount of matter in an object; a measure of an object's inertia.