Newton’s Third Law

The Third Law of Motion is the most popular of all. It says about the action-reaction nature of forces. I am sure you have heard of it. This law is really important in understanding physics and what this law says is also truly amazing. When I try and think how Newton arrived at this conclusion, it blows up my mind. Observing such phenomenon requires great focus and only very few people like Newton have this.

This law states that- “Each and every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” And what’s actually so amazing about this law is that it applies to each and every object, from objects as light as a feather to the whole entire earth itself, all observe it the same way. Just imagine if you stamp your feet against the ground, you apply a force on the earth but at the very same instant the earth applies an equal amount of force on you, how amazing that is! If we try and punch a brick wall it hurts a lot, but try asking yourself why, why does it hurt? You are punching the wall the wall isn’t punching you but still you get hurt, why is that so? The answer to this question and many such questions is given by this law. Well coming back to our question, why do we get hurt, what is happening there is that when we try and punch the wall, we exert a high amount of force on that wall and according to Newton’s Third law the wall exerts a same amount of force back on our hand, and that is why we get hurt.

Now we can reason why we get hurt. It feels nice when we can reason things. Remember that curiosity and our quest for knowledge and the ability to reason is what have gave us humans all we have today. Curiosity is the basis of discovery. The flame of curiosity should always glow bigger. Thanks for reading!!