If you stand next to a wall on a frictionless skateboard and push the wall with a force of 40n, how hard does the wall push on y

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If you stand next to a wall on a frictionless skateboard and push the wall with a force of 40n, how hard does the wall push on y

ou? if your mass is 80 kg, show that your acceleration is 0.5m/s2.

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Ostrovityanka [3.2K] · Answer 1 · 2026-03-21T00:28:28+03:00

The wall exerts an equal force in response to your push, so it's 40N. To illustrate that your acceleration is 0.5 m/s², we apply Newton's second law F=ma, which translates into 40N=80kg*a. Knowing that 1 Newton is equivalent to 1 kg*m/s², we can express it as 40kg*m/s²=80kg*a. By isolating 'a,' we find 40kg*m/s²/80kg = a, simplifying down to (40m/s²)/80 = a, which results in 0.5 m/s² for a.