I was watiching Rocky IV when I noticed how the opponent who was being punched was thrown back as the immediate result of the punch. This got me thinking and I did some research to see what caused the opponent to be thrown back. This is when I came across Newton's Third Law of Motion. The Third Law of Motion is, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This means that the force will be equal of an actionand reaction to an object. This correlates to Rocky IV. The force of the fist that was punching was equal to the force of the persons falling. The action equals the reaction.
This goes to show that almost everything can relate to science. Science surrounds us in ways which sometimes people don't recognize, like the Rocky IV scenario. People just have to go one step further to recognize it.
Some other examples of Newton's Third Law of Motion is someone falling off a skateboard, a rocket taking off, etc.
I got my information from http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/louviere/Newton/law3.html
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