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Two football players kick a football at the same time on opposite sides of the football. If the forces have the same size, could you call the two forces an action-reaction pair of forces? Why or why not?

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Answer: If two football players kick a football simultaneously on opposite sides of the football, and if the forces are the same size, we cannot call the two forces an action-reaction pair.

Step-by-step explanation:

An action-reaction pair can only be considered an interaction between two objects. It does not apply to a single object. In this case, two forces act on the same object, i.e. the ball.

For instance, if one player kicked a football and hit a wall, and if the ball had bounced back due to the force applied by the ball to the wall, it would have been an action-reaction pair. So, the two objects involved in this pair would be the ball, and the wall, to which the force was applied, not the player.

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