Forces diagram
If forces on an object are unbalanced, the object will accelerate or decelerate. If forces on an object are balanced, the object will stay still or keep moving with the same velocity.
If the object doesn't move, the forces HAVE TO be balanced. There is no other way.
Balanced forces acting on an object do not change the object's position.
balanced forces don't move an object, but unbalanced forces on an object do move
If forces on an object are balanced, the object will not accelerate - i.e., its velocity won't change.
If forces on an object are unbalanced, the object will accelerate or decelerate. If forces on an object are balanced, the object will stay still or keep moving with the same velocity.
* Balanced: The vector sum of all forces on an object is zero. The object does not accelerate.* Unbalanced: The vector sum of all forces on an object is NOT zero, the object DOES accelerate.
If the object doesn't move, the forces HAVE TO be balanced. There is no other way.
Balanced forces acting on an object do not change the object's position.
Because NOT all forces are equal and opposite. By Newton's Third Law, if object A attracts object B, then object B also attracts object A - with an equal but opposite force. But those forces act on DIFFERENT objects! The forces on object A, and on object B, may be unbalanced!Because NOT all forces are equal and opposite. By Newton's Third Law, if object A attracts object B, then object B also attracts object A - with an equal but opposite force. But those forces act on DIFFERENT objects! The forces on object A, and on object B, may be unbalanced!Because NOT all forces are equal and opposite. By Newton's Third Law, if object A attracts object B, then object B also attracts object A - with an equal but opposite force. But those forces act on DIFFERENT objects! The forces on object A, and on object B, may be unbalanced!Because NOT all forces are equal and opposite. By Newton's Third Law, if object A attracts object B, then object B also attracts object A - with an equal but opposite force. But those forces act on DIFFERENT objects! The forces on object A, and on object B, may be unbalanced!
balanced forces don't move an object, but unbalanced forces on an object do move
If forces on an object are balanced, the object will not accelerate - i.e., its velocity won't change.
If there are two or more unequal forces acting on an object then the object will be acting on the forces. ^_^
An unbalanced group of forces on an object causes the object to accelerate.Its acceleration is (the vector sum of all the forces)/(the object's mass) .
If the sum of the forces on an object do not equal zero, then the object will experience acceleration.
If the forces on an object are balanced then the object will not move. This simply means that the forces on the object counteract each other. If they are unbalanced then the object will move under the effect of the resultant force. The resultant force is the combination of all of the forces acting on an object.
When the net forces acting on an object sum to zero then the object's acceleration is zero.