Sentence examples for opposite force from inspiring English sources

According to the third law, the table applies an equal and opposite force to the book.

It is Newton's Third Law of Motion: For every force, there is an equal and opposite force.

But for Brian Nisbett and Alicia Collins, home exerts just the opposite force: get out of here, it says to them — the sooner the better.

A gun's kick occurs when gas from ignited gunpowder propels the shell out of a gun barrel, creating an equal and opposite force that pushes the gun's firing bolt backward.

Once the pirates are on board this becomes a tale of a ship with two captains, and it's critical that Hanks is matched by an equal and opposite force to prevent the drama from becoming unbalanced.

His dismay was matched with equal and opposite force by the joy of Richard Spencer, the white nationalist whose movement has been emboldened over the past year and a half by the Trump insurgency.

Figure 17A shows a body in equilibrium under the action of equal and opposite forces.

When equal and opposite forces are applied to a body, it is always deformed slightly.

In the more recent layered wax paintings, opposite forces also work simultaneously.

They are actually doing the opposite: forcing us to remember that which has been intentionally forgotten.

A static situation, like a stalemate in a tug of war, requires equal but opposite forces that cancel each other.