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A ball bounce on the ground. How do the ball and the ground act on each other?
A. The ball exerts a stronger force than the ground in the same direction.
B. The ball and the ground exert forces on each other with equal magnitude but in opposite directions.
C. The ball and the ground exert forces on each other with equal magnitude and in the same direction.
D. The balk exerts a stronger force than the ground and in th opposite direction.
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By Newton's third law the contact forces are an action-reaction pair: the ground pushes the ball upward with a force, and the ball pushes the ground downward with an equal-magnitude force in the opposite direction. (They act on different objects, so they do not cancel each other.)
By Newton's third law the contact forces are an action-reaction pair: the ground pushes the ball upward with a force, and the ball pushes the ground downward with an equal-magnitude force in the opposite direction. (They act on different objects, so they do not cancel each other.)
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