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The confusion comes from how you have written the equation. If you write it like this $$F_{net} = ma$$ it will be easier to see your error. You are exerting a force on the boulder, but net force is zero. This means that other forces such as friction are canceling your force out. In this case. Friction equals applied force.

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A force is defined as a change in momentum over time. In the Newtonian limit, this means a mass times an acceleration. But when dealing with things like photons, the formal definition is applied. Photons have no mass, only momentum. Therefore, if a force is applied to them, their momentum can be changed. This can happen in two important ways, a force can ...

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No. The easiest way to see this without invoking rotating reference frames is to write out Newton's Law's in polar coordinates, which work out to be: \begin{align*} F_r &= m \ddot{r} - m r \dot{\phi}^2 \\ F_\phi &= m r \ddot{\phi} + 2 m \dot{r} \dot{\phi} \end{align*} From these, it's pretty easy to see that if we have $F_\phi = 0$ and $\dot{r} ... 1 Firstly, I would like to say that there is no particular terminal separation between negative charges and positive charges. Actually you will understand it better if I would clarify in this way that scientists first saw that having even follow the same statistical distribution i.e. Fermi Dirac distribution some of them actually repel others and some do ... 1 you can draw feynman digrams and then calculate scattering amplitudes and it is in the non relativistic limit is proportinal to potential.so if the potential is positive it means they repel. this sort of claculation is done in peskin book and A.Zee book.in peskin book page no 125. this is the most rigorous work to prove gravity is always attractive. by ... 1 Because observations made by physicists have found that this is what nature does. 1 (i) Roger Shawyer Shawyer's output seems to be mostly available on emdrive.com. Among the theoretical explanations he provides there are A Note on the Principles of EmDrive force measurement Principle of Operation Theory paper None of these appear to be peer-reviewed. (ii) NWPU group Applying Method of Reference 2 to Effectively Calculating ... 1 Force = mass * acceleration is the basic simplified version of the equation. There are more complected formulas available for this that take into account more complicated scenarios; like taking in the account of different forces coming from different directions like in your scenario. sum(forces) = mass * acceleration force = the derivative of its linear ... 1 The main thing is that the total force you are applying on the body is not enough to move the rock.This means that the total force on the box is zero because the force of static friction is grater than that of your applied force,which cancels out the effect your force.As your forces increases the static friction also increases until a point comes when you ... 1 This type of question keeps reccuring. I suppose either teachers don't teach this correctly, or students do not pay attention in class.$F=m a\$ is really $$\sum F = m a_{cm}$$ These two distinctions (the sum, and the acceleration of the center of mass) make all the difference in the world (At least read on Newton's Laws of motion). You push on the rock and ...

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