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Nisha is moving to a new apartment, so she is packing up cardboard boxes and sliding the full boxes across the floor. Use
Newton's first and second laws to explain why she finds that the heavy boxes are harder to get moving than the lighter
boxes.

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Final answer:

Heavier boxes are harder to get moving than lighter boxes due to Newton's first and second laws of motion and the influence of friction.


Explanation:

Newton's first law of motion states that an object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an external force. When Nisha pushes the cardboard boxes, the heavier boxes have more inertia, making them harder to get moving initially than the lighter boxes.

Newton's second law of motion relates the net force applied to an object to its acceleration. The heavier boxes require more force to accelerate due to their greater mass, causing them to be harder to get moving compared to the lighter boxes.

Friction plays a role here as well. Heavy boxes have more weight pressing down on the floor, increasing the friction force they need to overcome to start moving, making them harder to push than lighter boxes.


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