Use The Force

      Hello everybody, I'm back again with a new post for this week and I hope that I can get back into that post per week routine, but no promises. Well, this week we will be talking about something that all you Star Wars fans will be quite familiar with. We will use the force of our minds and explore what force is and how it affects the world around us. Now that we know our topic for this post, let's begin.

Force

      Force is a push or pull that is acted upon an object. Force is all around and you may not know it's there. One form of force that we are all hopefully aware of is the force of gravity which keeps us on the ground. Another type of force is action at a distance force. This type of force is what keeps the earth in a constant orbit around the sun. Another type of force is contact force. An example of this is when two cars collide into each other and one car is bumped back. These are some of the examples of force that you can see every day. Force also has a special type of measurement as well. When you measure force you measure it in Newtons. The reason why it is named Newtons is because Sir Issac Newton was the first person to discover force and how force works on objects. He also created the three laws of motion. Finally there is thrust. Thrust is the reaction force that is applied on a surface in a direction perpendicular or normal to the surface.

It's a push or a pull

      Now that we know what Force is and how it is measured, let's talk about balanced and unbalanced force and how you can tell them apart. Balanced force is when an object is at rest or in a constant speed and direction. These characteristics are of balanced force, but who wants to stay at a constant speed or stay in the same direction? Let's say that you have the need for speed, so what do you need to go faster? It's unbalanced force. Unbalanced force is when the force (push or pull) on the object is greater than the other forces acting upon it. Depending on where this greater force is applied, you would travel in that direction, may it be up, down, left, right, forwards, or backwards.

Balanced force

      Now that we know what balanced and unbalanced forces are, let's now learn about centripetal force. Centripetal force is when an object is in a circler motion moving at a constant speed. An example of this is when a motorcycle is spinning in a metal cage. The reason why the motorcyclist is able to do the spins in the cage is because of centripetal force.

Example

 

centripetal force

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