Drag each clue onto the right force
Exercise and reference answers
- Items
- Group
- Normal force
- Item
- Table holds up a book
- Group
- Tension
- Item
- Pull along a rope
- Group
- Weight
- Item
- Equals m times g
- Group
- Normal force
- Item
- At right angles to a surface
- Group
- Tension
- Item
- Carried by a cable
- Group
- Normal force
- Item
- Slope pushes on a skier
- Group
- Weight
- Item
- Always acts downward
- Group
- Tension
- Item
- Cannot push, only pull
- Groups
- Item
- Normal force
- Item
- Tension
- Item
- Weight
- Instructions
- Drag every clue into Normal force, Tension or Weight to build the three groups.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax College Physics, Ch 4 Dynamics: Force and Newton's Laws of Motion, section 4.5 Normal, Tension, and Other Examples of Forces_