Kodzikas Posted July 20, 2015 Posted July 20, 2015 What is the difference between weak and strong laws of action and reaction?Can you give any examples? 1
Mordred Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 (edited) Yes, though it's been years since I last heard those terms used. Newton's third law is also known as the weak law of action and reaction. It states that for every action force, there is a corresponding reaction force which is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/WeakLawofActionandReaction.html For every action force, there is a corresponding reaction force which is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. Furthermore, the forces are central forces, i.e., they act along the line joining the particles http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/StrongLawofActionandReaction.html. Weak law is linear momentum Strong law is angular momentum. the difference is shown here. https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/Advanced_Classical_Mechanics/Many-Particle_Systems The strong law involves the central force. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_force Here is a decent coverage on both. http://wiki.ubc.ca/Course:PHYS350/Many-Particle_Systems Edited July 21, 2015 by Mordred 1
Mordred Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Thank you. It makes sense now. No problem +1 for asking such a little known question.
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