A wagon (W) can be pulled by the players of two teams. Both Blue Team and Red Team have four players, one adult (A), a teenager (T), and
two children (C). The adult is the largest player, the children are the smallest players.
1. Even Steven.
If you arrange identical teams in the Tug of War, you'll get a tie. The net force is zero. The following are
examples of identical teams.
A-.W-A (Adult vs. Adult)
---W-
A-T-C-C-W-C-C-T-A
a. Describe three distinct ways to arrange the teams so that you get a tie even though the teams have
different numbers of players. These are non-identical, balanced teams. (To show distinct arrangements,
don't simply switch players on each side. For example, A-C---W-T and T---W-A-C are not distinct. (Nor do
they produce a tie.)
i.
i.
b. Complete this statement which relates part of Newton's First Law (the Law of Inertia) to these
remain
observations: A body
unless acted on by a/an
force.