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If you were a spaceship and fired a cannonball into frictionless space how much force would have to be exerted on the ball to keep on going?
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∙ 14y ago
none.
because of Newton's first law. that an object in motion is going to stay in motion (cannonball) until and outside force is acted upon it. So in theory it could be a meteor or black hole that changes its course of direction, but in this case, the cannonball would travel 'infinitely.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agonot much force, space has no gravity. so the ball would never come to a complete stop. it would just float around
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∙ 14y agoAny amount above zero, because the space is frictionless.
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∙ 13y agoNo force is required. There's no net force to act upon it.
Harry Gruene
Just very little force. The sun itself just with photons and solar winds are very slowly pushing all the planets away.
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