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Explain how your race car moves in reference to Newton’s 3rd law of motion.

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imagine you're driving a bumper car and are about to bump a friend in another car, as shown in Figure 14. When the two cars collide, your car pushes on the other car. By Newton's third law, that car pushes on your car with the same force, but in the opposite direction. This force causes you to slow down.

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If I understood his 3rd law correctly, the force coming from the engine, going to the tires causes the tires to apply force to the ground, making the ground respond with a counter force to the tires, thus causing the whole race car to move.

(Forgive me if my response is wrong. I will correct this if it's wrong)

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