Newton's second law of motion put to the test.flv
Frantisek Plasil Frantisek Plasil
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 Published On Feb 25, 2012

I borrowed a video uploaded by Turbo617. It's a part of Monster Garage series. Guys build a tricycle with a truck engine and Jessie J then drag races with a full size semi. Newton's second law tells us that with equal forces acting on two different masses the produced accelerations will differ by the same ratio as the ration of the masses of the two objects. There is no way to tell whether the two engines in the video produced exactly the same force or whether the accelerations differed by exactly the correct ratio, but the result is there and I think it makes the point clear. Push two objects with the same force and the lighter one will accelerate more.

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