As you sit in your chair and study your physics (presuming that you do), the force of gravity acts downward upon your body. The reaction force to the force of the Earth pulling you downward is ___. a. the force of the chair pushing you upward b. the force of the floor pushing your chair upward c. the force of the Earth pushing you upward d. the force of air molecules pushing you upwards e. the force of your body pulling the Earth upwards f. ... nonsense! Gravity is a field force and there is no such reaction force.

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Newton’s Third Law of Motion

The horse pulls the cart and the cart pulls the horse in response as per Newton third law. So the big question is, “Don’t the two forces cancel each other? How does the cart accelerate?”