• Question: How do forces affect the object?

    Asked by tufa532gage25 on 20 Jan 2026.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 20 Jan 2026:

      It really depends what type of forces. Attractive forces like gravitation tend to pull objects together. While repulsive forces like those between similar charges or magnetic poles tend to push things apart.

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      Jonathan Mound answered on 20 Jan 2026:

      Forces cause an object to accelerate. The direction and strength of that acceleration is found by adding up all of the forces acting on an object. Each one acts in some direction and with some strength. Sometimes the forces might exactly cancel out, and the object will not accelerate at all. Sometimes they will add together, and the object will accelerate more than any one force would cause on its own.

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      Kalina Dimitrova answered on 20 Jan 2026:

      Forces are pushes or pulls, and they tell objects how to move.

      A force can:

      – Make an object move if it was stopped

      – Make it stop if it was moving

      – Change its speed (go faster or slower)

      – Change its direction (turn or fall)

      – Change its shape (like squashing clay)

      If more than one force is acting on an object, they work together. If the forces are balanced, the object stays still or keeps moving the same way. If the forces are unbalanced, the object’s movement changes.

      For example, when you throw a ball, your hand pushes it forward, gravity pulls it down, and air pushes back a little. All these forces together decide how the ball moves.

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