Question

challenge (required)
you are now being tasked to create your own claim for a thinking map. please respond to the following prompt by putting a claim (answer to the question) in the top bubble, evidence that supports this claim in the two bottom bubbles, and reasoning in the lines that connect your claim and evidence. you may pull evidence from any activity or reading we have done in the class, but the purple, green, and blue 2.4 activities should provide plenty of evidence.
prompt: what are forces like in a collision of objects with different mass?
claim: in a collision both objects experience the same magnitude of force, but in opposite directions.
evidence
evidence

Explanation:

Newton's third - law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In a collision between objects of different masses, this law applies. For example, when a bat (heavier) hits a baseball (lighter), the bat exerts a force on the ball, and the ball exerts an equal - magnitude force back on the bat in the opposite direction. Evidence can be found in physics experiments where forces are measured during collisions, and also in real - life observations of collisions like car crashes or billiard ball collisions.

Answer:

Evidence 1: Physics experiments measuring collision forces show equal and opposite forces.
Evidence 2: Real - life collision observations (e.g., car crashes, billiard ball collisions) support the claim.