what happens according to Newton's third law, while you pull a catapult?
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Newton's Third-law is without a doubt the law that is seen most in the launch of the catapult. It is displayed countless moments in the experiment. One of these moments is when my hand is pushing down the catapult to set it into position. The catapult arm is pushing up on my hand with a lot of force, but my hand is pushing back, in the opposite direction, making the catapult arm move downwards.
A catapult is projected or thrown at a high speed according to Newton's Third of motion.
Explanation:
A catapult is actually a ballistic device which allows to launch or thrown matter in a projectile motion with great speed.
According to third law of motion:
- "Any force of action will have a reaction which is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the action force".
- It states that force always comes in action-reaction pair.
- Example: A body kept of a table will not fall down because the table exerts the same amount of force on the body as it exerts on the table due to gravity, which is its weight.
So, when a catapult is pulled, the force with which it is pulled back, with the same amount of force it is thrown or launched in the forward direction when released.