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Newton's Cat

March 27, 2017

A frustrated person shoves a smug, immovable cat sitting on a table.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-03-27-newton-s-cat/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

[Caption] "Newton's Fourth Law: the net force acting upon a cat is always zero."

Person: "Why won't you move??"

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