Actually thrust is aerodynamically involved, its the driving force that accelerates the aircrafts in forward direction and the opposite force is drag. The opposing force against gravity in a flight is lift.
Lift is the upward force that opposes the force of gravity.
Any force with an upward vertical component does.
The force that causes you to move upward when you jump into the air is the normal force exerted by the ground on your feet. This force opposes the force of gravity acting on your body, allowing you to overcome gravity and move upward.
Essentially there are 4 aerodynamic forces that act on an airplane in flight; these are lift, drag, thrust and gravity (or weight).In simple terms, drag is the resistance of air (the backward force), thrust is the power of the airplane's engine (the forward force), lift is the upward force and gravity is the downward force. So for airplanes to fly, the thrust must be greater than the drag and the lift must be greater than the gravity (so as you can see, drag opposes thrust and lift opposes gravity).This is certainly the case when an airplane takes off or climbs. However, when it is in straight and level flight the opposing forces of lift and gravity are balanced. During a descent, gravity exceeds lift and to slow an airplane drag has to overcome thrust.
Buoyancy is an upward acting force. It is caused by fluid preassure which opposes an objects weight ( their gravitational pull downwards ).
The four forces acting on an airplane in flight are lift, weight (or gravity), thrust, and drag. Lift is generated by the wings and opposes the force of gravity. Thrust is produced by the engines and overcomes the force of drag, which is caused by air resistance.
If you're talking about something in say a tank of water, the buoyant force points up and opposes the downward force of gravity......
The force that acts against the force of buoyancy is gravity. Buoyancy is the upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an object immersed in the fluid. Gravity, on the other hand, pulls objects downwards.
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The force that helps in floating is called buoyancy. Buoyancy is the upward force exerted on an object immersed in a fluid (such as water) that is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. This force opposes the force of gravity, allowing objects to float.
The buoyant force is an upward force exerted by a fluid on an object submerged in it, equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. It is responsible for objects floating in a fluid or experiencing a net upward force when partially or fully submerged.
Thrust is the forward motion of the airplane provided by the engines. Lift is the upward force on an airplanes wing.