Contact & Non-Contact forces

Question 1

8What is a contact force?

Answer 1

Forces that act between two objects that are physically touching each other

Question 2

what are the types of reaction forces?

Answer 2

friction, reaction force, air resistance, tension

Question 3

what is an reaction force

Answer 3

an object at rest on a surface

Question 4

what is tension?

Answer 4

An object being stretched

Question 5

what is friction?

Answer 5

two objects sliding past each other

Question 6

what is air resistance?

Answer 6

an object moving through the air

Question 7

what is Newton’s 3rd law of motion?

Answer 7

whenever two objects interact, they exert equal and opposite forces on each other.

Question 8

what is a non-contact force?

Answer 8

Forces that act between two objects that are not physically touching each other

Question 9

what are the types of non-contact forces?

Answer 9

Magnetic force, electrostatic force, gravitational force

Question 10

what is a magnetic force?

Answer 10

Any magnetic material in a magnetic field

Question 11

What is an electrostatic force?

Answer 11

Any charged particle in a electric field

Question 12

what is a gravitational force?

Answer 12

Any mass in a gravitational field