Definition of Net Force

the total amount of force exerted on an object

Examples of Net Force in a sentence

If you are pushing a cart and there is no resistance, the force you are exerting on that cart is the net force.  🔊

If there is twenty pounds of force applied on one side of an object and twenty pounds on the other side of the object as well, they cancel out and the net force is zero.  🔊

The force of a car’s engine and the force of gravity pulling it downhill both combine to equal the net force being exerted on the car.  🔊

When you go skydiving, the force of gravity pulls you down but the air resistance slows your fall, so the net force is both of these factors combined.  🔊

In an arm wrestle, I exerted fifty pounds of force and my friend exerted only forty five pounds of force, so the net force was five pounds in my favor.  🔊

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