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Net Force Practice WS

This document is a worksheet about net force. It defines net force as the total force acting on an object from all combined individual forces. The worksheet contains example problems calculating net force and distinguishes between balanced and unbalanced forces. Balanced forces occur when the net force is zero, while unbalanced forces occur when the net force is non-zero and causes motion.

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Net Force Practice WS

This document is a worksheet about net force. It defines net force as the total force acting on an object from all combined individual forces. The worksheet contains example problems calculating net force and distinguishes between balanced and unbalanced forces. Balanced forces occur when the net force is zero, while unbalanced forces occur when the net force is non-zero and causes motion.

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11. What is net force?

Show your work on problems 12-14


12. A boy pulls a wagon with a force of 6 N east as another boy pushes it with a force of 4 N
east. What is the net force?

13. Mr. Smith and his wife were trying to move their new chair. Mr. Smith pulls with a force
of 30 N while Mrs. Smith pushes with a force of 25 N in the same direction. What is the net
force?

14. The classes are playing tug of war. Mrs. Larsons homeroom pulls with a force of 50 N.
Ms. Mitkos homeroom pulls with a force of 45 N in the opposite direction. What is the net
force? And who won?

15. What is a balanced force?

16. What is an unbalanced force?

17. Draw a picture below that shows an example of a balanced force (examples: a birds
nest in a tree, a hat on a persons head, or a light hanging from a ceiling). Show the forces
acting on the object. In a separate picture show what would happen to the object if the
forces became unbalanced.

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