Newton's 3rd Law

This past week, Mr. Kohara taught us something that blew our minds. We just could not believe the words he was saying to us. He said that every time you exert a force on an object, that object will return an equal and opposite force back. This is the act of Newton's 3rd Law. At first I was "tripping out" at what Mr. Kohara was saying but then began to realize the validity of this law. This past weekend, we had a baseball tournament. I did not realize until now that through baseball, we are performing Newton's 3rd Law of Motion. That also made me realize that its not only baseball, but many other things in our daily lives that perform the 3rd Law. Back to baseball, as a pitcher, I pitch or throw the ball to the catcher where the hitter tries to hit it. When I was pitching, I randomly remembered what Mr. Kohara said during class and smiled. I realized that every time I threw that ball, the ball pushed an equal and opposite force back at me. How weird is that?! A small baseball pushed the same amount of force on me as I did to the ball! That is hard to believe. But, the reason why the ball travels in the direction I push the ball is because its mass is a lot smaller than my mass. The balls mass is so small that even if it exerts the same force as I do, the ball will accelerate in the direction I force it to go. Since my mass is larger by far, my hand will not accelerate backwards as my mass is too great for the ball's mass.