Kinds of Forces

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Dhenzhel Rei A.

Corpuz 8-Mabini
What is force?
-Is the push or pull on an Object with mass that
causes it to change velocity (To Accelerate)

What is the Difference of contact force and non-


contact force?
-A non-contact force is a force which acts on an object without
coming physically in contact with it.In Contact/a contact force
is a force applied to a body by another body that is in contact
with it
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Types of Contact Forces
Normal Force
-The normal force is the support force exerted upon an object that is
in contact with another stable object. For example, if a book is
resting upon a surface, then the surface is exerting an upward force
upon the book in order to support the weight of the book. On
occasions, a normal force is exerted horizontally between two
objects that are in contact with each other. For instance, if a person
leans against a wall, the wall pushes horizontally on the person.

Applied Force
An applied force is a force that is applied to an object by a person or
another object. If a person is pushing a desk across the room, then
there is an applied force acting upon the object. The applied force is
the force exerted on the desk by the person.
Frictional Force
The friction force is the force exerted by a surface as an object moves
across it or makes an effort to move across it. There are at least two types
of friction force - sliding and static friction. Though it is not always the
case, the friction force often opposes the motion of an object. For example,
if a book slides across the surface of a desk, then the desk exerts a friction
force in the opposite direction of its motion. Friction results from the two
surfaces being pressed together closely, causing intermolecular attractive
forces between molecules of different surfaces. As such, friction depends
upon the nature of the two surfaces and upon the degree to which they
are pressed together. The maximum amount of friction force that a surface
can exert upon

Tension Force
The tension force is the force that is transmitted through a string, rope,
cable or wire when it is pulled tight by forces acting from opposite ends.
The tension force is directed along the length of the wire and pulls equally
on the objects on the opposite ends of the wire.

Spring Force
The spring force is the force exerted by a compressed or stretched spring
upon any object that is attached to it. An object that compresses or
stretches a spring is always acted upon by a force that restores the object
to its rest or equilibrium position. For most springs (specifically, for those
that are said to obey "Hooke's Law"), the magnitude of the force is directly
proportional to the amount of stretch or compression of the spring.

Resisting force
resistive force is a force whose direction is opposite to the velocity of the
body, or of the sum of the other forces
Types of Non-Contact Forces
Magnetic Force
Magnetic force, attraction or repulsion that arises between electrically
charged particles because of their motion. It is the basic force responsible
for such effects as the action of electric motors and the attraction
of magnets for iron. Electric forces exist among stationary electric charges;
both electric and magnetic forces exist among moving electric charges. The
magnetic force between two moving charges may be described as the
effect exerted upon either charge by a magnetic field created by the other.
From this point of view, the magnetic force F on the second particle is
proportional to its charge q2, the magnitude of its velocity v2, the magnitude
of the magnetic field B1produced by the first moving charge, and the sine of
the angle theta, θ, between the path of the second particle and the direction
of the magnetic field; that is, F = q2B1v2 sin θ. The force is zero if the
second charge is travelling in the direction of the magnetic field and is
greatest if it travels at right angles to the magnetic field.

Electromagnetic Force
The term electromagnetism combines the electric and magnetic forces into
a single word because both forces are due to the same underlying
phenomenon. “Charged” particles generate electric fields, and positive and
negative charges react to that field differently, which explains the force we
observe. For electric interactions, positively charged particles (like protons)
push away positively charged particles and attract negatively charged ones
(like electrons), and vice versa. Electric field lines spread directly outward
from positive electric charges, and this pushes particles in the direction of –
or in the opposite direction to – the field lines.
Magnetism comes from magnetic fields, which are generated by moving
charges. Particles don’t respond to magnetic fields in the same way as they
do to electric fields. Magnetic field lines form circles, with no beginning or
end. In response to them, particles move in a direction perpendicular to
both their motion and the field line. As with electric forces, positively
charged particles and negatively charged ones move in opposite directions.

Gravitational Force
Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation is used to explain gravitational force.
This law states that every massive particle in the universe attracts every
other massive particle with a force which is directly proportional to the
product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the
distance between them. This general, physical law was derived from
observations made by induction. Another way, more modern, way to state
the law is: ‘every point mass attracts every single other point mass by a
force pointing along the line intersecting both points. The force is
proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to
the square of the distance between the point masses’.

Gravitational force surrounds us. It is what decides how much we weigh


and how far a basketball will travel when thrown before it returns to the
surface. The gravitational force on Earth is equal to the force the Earth
exerts on you. At rest, on or near the surface of the Earth, the gravitational
force equals your weight. On a different astronomical body like Venus or
the Moon, the acceleration of gravity is different than on Earth, so if you
were to stand on a scale, it would show you that you weigh a different
amount than on Earth.

When two objects are gravitational locked, their gravitational force is


centered in an area that is not at the center of either object, but at the
barycenter of the system. The principle is similar to that of a see-saw. If two
people of very different weights sit on opposite sides of the balance point,
the heavier one must sit closer to the balance point so that they can
equalize each others mass. For instance, if the heavier person weighs
twice as much as the lighter one, they must sit at only half the distance
from the fulcrum. The balance point is the center of mass of the see-saw,
just as the barycenter is the balance point of the Earth-Moon system. This
point that actually moves around the Sun in the orbit of the Earth, while the
Earth and Moon each move around the barycenter, in their orbits.

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