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Newton's Second Law

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Example from the book: In chapter 3, titled “Inertia and Newton’s First Law”, on page 78 Tom explains how sometimes movies pretend there is a stopping force for projectiles when there is not. According to Newton’s first law, an object moves until a net force changes its motion. So, this change could be speeding up, slowing down, or change the direction of the object. This law takes into account the mass of the objects, so, higher the mass of the object, the harder it is to stop or change the objects direction. Tom explains that the movie Young Guns II violates this fundamental physical principle. The main character called “The Kid”, blows the tips off several candles with the rapid fire from his six-shooter and get to the windows, but did not
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