8.01SC Classical Mechanics
Age 16Sample16-year-old · 11th grade

Pairs, diagrams, and the pull of Earth

From Newton's Laws of Motion · Peter Dourmashkin

Forces come in pairs on two bodies; a free-body diagram is one body; weight is not mass; contact forces are pairs with a surface or a rope.

Original lecture on MIT OpenCourseWare

Before this sitting

Can you already do this?

Two quick checks on “you will be able to…”. Right on both and this sitting becomes mixed practice, not a lecture. Wrong is useful — we keep the full sitting.

  1. A bat hits a ball. During contact the force of bat on ball is 80 N east. The force of ball on bat is…

  2. A 3 kg box sits. g = 10 N/kg. Which sentence is true?