You are driving down the highway and bug splatters on your windshield. Which is

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You are driving down the highway and bug splatters on your windshield. Which is greater: the force of the bug on the windshield, or the force of the windshield on the bug? Hold a rubber band between your right and left hands. Pull with your left hand. Does your right experience a force? Does your right hand apply a force to the rubber band? What direction is that force compared to the force applied by the left hand? Pull harder with your left hand. Does this change any force applied by the right hand? How is the force of your left hand, transmitted by the rubber band, related to the force applied by your right hand? Write a rule, in words, for the force relationship.

Explanation / Answer

1.solution

According to Newton's third law
the force exerted by the bug on the windshield is equal to the force exerted by the windshield on the bug. they are equal on magnitude and opposite in direction

2.solution

My right hand experiences the force of the rubber band pulling on it. My right hand applies a force to the rubber band in opposite direction that my left hand applies.

3.solution:

The force applied by my right hand increases in magnitude.

4.The applied pulling force of my left hand by way of rubber band causes my right hand to pull oppositely with the same force.

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