8th Grade Physical Science Question

Question

1) Identify and represent with vector arrows, Action-Reaction Force Pairs for the 5 forces circled in red on the image.

2) Your written responses should describe the action force, the equal and opposite reaction force and describe how the direction of the force would be represented with vector arrows on the image.

Can someone please help me with this? Or at least explain to me how I would do it?

Answer 1

Newton's third law: for every action force there is an equal (in size) and opposite (in direction) reaction force. Forces always come in pairs - known as "action-reaction force pairs." Identifying and describing action-reaction force pairs is a simple matter of identifying the two interacting objects and making two statements describing who is pushing on whom and in what direction.

You could describe the first one as:

Blue shirt player's left hand forces the white shirt player's head/helmet backwards; the white shirt player's head/helmet forces the blue shirt player's left hand back towards in left shoulder...