QUIZ #7, Force and Motion I

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You may have noticed that the first Quiz was comprised of a question from your textbook and also the Puzzler at the beginning of Chapter 1. The following Quiz also involves questions from your textbook. The following three questions refer to the material you were to read in preparation for the lesson.

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1.

State, in your own words, Newton's First Law.

2.

State, in your own words, Newton's Second Law.

3.

State, in your own words, Newton's Third Law.

4.

On April 4, 1974, John Massis of Belgium managed to move two passenger cars belonging to New York's Long Island Railroad. He did so by clamping his teeth down on a bit that was attached to the cars with a rope and then leaning backward while pressing his feet against the railway ties. The cars weighed about 80 tons. Did Massis have to pull with superhuman force to accelerate them?
(This is the Puzzler for Chapter 5 of your text.)

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