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Emilio tries to jump to a nearby dock from a canoe that is floating in the water.Instead of landing on the dock, he falls into the water beside the canoe.Use newtons third law to explain why this happened.Hint:First identify the action-reaction pair in this example.

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the reaction of him pushing off a floating object pushes it away causing him to lose power and balance
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