Friction and Gravity teacherweb摩擦和重力teacherweb.pptVIP

Think about pushing a book slowly across a long table..If you stopped pushing it most likely it would stop moving without you exerting force upon it. Now think about picking the book up slowly until it is over your head and then letting go..will it continue to move after you let it go? YES!!! If both situations, you are exerting force upon an object and then removing the force..but in one situation there is continued movement and one there is not..WHY? According to Newton’s first law of motion, the book’s motion changes ONLY if an unbalanced force acts on it… When book one slides across the t