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Q 12.       According to the third law of motion when we push on an object, the object pushes back on us with an equal and opposite force. If the object is a massive truck parked along the roadside, it will probably not move. A student justifies this by answering that the two opposite and equal forces cancel each other. Comment on this logic and explain why the truck does not move.

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The student is correct. The force applied by him is less than the static friction present between tyres of the truck and the road (as the mass of truck is large thus the frictional force is also high). Thus the force applied by the student is balanced by the static frictional force which is the action-reaction pair.

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Sanket Gandhi

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