A Book Is Given a Brief Shove Along a Table

question 29

Multiple Choice

A book is given a brief shove along a table top and released so that it slides a short distance and comes to rest. According to Aristotle, it stopped because

• A) of gravity.
• B) the ether slows it down to a stop.
• C) its natural motion is to come to rest.
• D) of friction.
• E) of its inertia.

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