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*2. Balanced forces are needed to move a pencil across a desk.1 pointTrueFalse

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In order to move a pencil across a desk, we need some force being applied in the pencil, this way the pencil will accelerate in some direction.

If all forces in the pencil are balanced, the sum of forces will be zero, so the pencil will not move.

Therefore the statement is FALSE.

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