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You sit on ice and shove a heavy box with your feet with a given force. What will you and the box share? *

A) Same acceleration
B) equal and opposite acceleration
C) the equal and opposite force
D) same force
explain please

User Neal Gafter
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Answer:

the correct answer is C

Step-by-step explanation:

In this exercise we will analyze the situation.

When the person is on the ice, the friction coefficient is very small, if the box is in a place where there is no ice, the coefficient is different, so the friction force on each body is different.

Therefore the acceleration that each body acquires is different.

If we apply the conservation of momentum, each body moves in the opposite direction, but with different speeds.

If we use Newton's third law, the force applied to each body has the same magnitude and opposite direction, which is why the force is of the action and reaction type

Consequently the correct answer is C

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