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A force can never act by itself?

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An object can never act on itself. Forces related to Newton's third law apply to different bodies, therefore they cannot cancel each other out. For example, the reaction to Earth's gravitational pull on the Moon is the Moon's pull on Earth.
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An object can never act on itself. Forces related to Newton's third law apply to different bodies, therefore they cannot cancel each other out. For example, the reaction to Earth's gravitational pull on the Moon is the Moon's pull on Earth.

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