What types of forces are you familiar with?
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There are many types of forces that act on humans in everyday life. A few of them are - Frictional force, gravitational force, Magnetic force, contact forces like push and pull, electromagnetic force, spring force, resistance force, weak and strong interaction forces, etc.
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Types of Forces
You’re in your room, sitting and reading this. At this very moment, are you actually applying any force? If so, then what type of force are you applying? Now, take a bottle and push it across the table. Did you just apply force? What type of force did you apply? Pushing the bottle across the table comes under ‘Applied Forces’. Let us study more in-depth about the types of forces.
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Types of Forces
Forces can be divided into primarily into two types of forces:
Contact Forces
Non-contact Forces
Contact Forces
Any types of forces that require being in contact with another object come under ‘Contact Force’. All mechanical forces are contact forces. Contact forces further divide into following types of forces:
Muscular Forces
Muscles functions to produce a resulting force which is known as ‘muscular force’. Muscular force exists only when it is in contact with an object. We apply muscular force during the basic day to day work of our life such as breathing, digestion, lifting a bucket, pulling or pushing some object. Muscular force comes in handy to simply our work.
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