If You Push on Your Textbook So That It Slides

question 18

Multiple Choice

If you push on your textbook so that it slides across the table at a constant velocity,

• A) there must not be any forces acting on the book, otherwise it would accelerate.
• B) all of the forces acting on the book must be balanced.
• C) the book must be changing direction.
• D) none of the above

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