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Your feet are pushing backward against the floor, where friction prevents that backward motion and exerts an equal force that pushes you forward. If the floor were not fixed in place, it would move backward instead and you would stay in the same place. If friction did not exist, your foot would merely slide backward across the floor, and again you would stay in the same place.

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Q: What exerts the force that pushes you forward when you walk?
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How does man walk?

When we walk on the ground our foot pushes the ground backward, and in return, the ground pushes our foot forward. The forward reaction exerted by the ground pushes our foot forward. The forward reaction exerted by the ground on our foot makes us walk forward.


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What forceenables you to walk on the ground?

Friction, as we push ground the tangential component of the normal force that is friction (is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other) pushes us forward (newtons third law) helps us to move forward and walk.


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when we walk on the ground, our feet pushes the ground in backward direction, as a reaction ground pushes us in forward direction hence we can walk on the ground.


According To Newtons 3rd Law Of Motion For Every Action There Is An Equal And Opposite Reaction Then How Come Things Move If There's Going To Be Something Moving Them Back With Equal Force?

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When you walk along a foor what pushes you along?

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How is newtons third law of motion at work when you walk?

the concept's application here is very simple. As we walk we exert a certain amount of force on the Earth and governed by the 3rd law the Earth exerts the equal amount of force back on our foot (opposite direction) but as the Earth is very massive to observe the push that we exert only the force the it exerts it felt this added to friction provides the stability of the feet while in movement


What law of motion is it when you feel a force against the sole of your foot as you take a step forward?

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Can you walk on a friction less floor why?

No. There would be no force being applied to the floor by your foot (friction) so there would be no force from the floor in response pushing your foot forward. According to newton's 3rd law. (every action has an equal and opposite reaction)No I can't.. No one can.


You are learning how to juggle and when ever you practice the balls move forward causing you to walk forward how do you stop this?

Simple...don't walk forward when you juggle?