According to Newton's third law, each team in a tug of war pulls with equal force on other team.?

Question

What, then, determines which team will win?

Answer 1

the one which pulls with the greater force will start to move (accelerate)the other team. once moving, balanced forces means the velocity will continue. only if the losing side can apply a greater force will the movement stop

Answer 2

It is determined by which team applies more force on the rope.

Suppose that teams are team A and team B.

Team A applies force of magnitude Fa on the rope and team B applies force of magnitude Fb on the rope.

Newton's third law says that the rope applies force of magnitude Fa on team A and it applies force of magnitude Fb on team B.

But it does NOT mean that Fa and Fb are equal. If one team applies more force on the rope than the other team, then the first team will win.

Also, consider the force with which a team pushes ground in forward direction. The ground pushes that team back with the same force. So, it helps a team if that team pushes ground with more force.

Answer 3

which team have higher stamina :)

Answer 4

The normal reaction they exert on the ground, and thus friction which is uN  (where u is coefficient of friction and N is the normal reaction),,, The team which exerts more Normal Reaction will win.

Answer 5

Each team is pulling on the other with equal force IF AND ONLY IF they are deadlocked and neither team is moving.  When one team pulls and causes the other team to move, the equal and opposite reaction is the team flying east (let's say), since friction that was pulling them west was just overcome.

Answer 6

Only if an external force is acted upon an object,then it will change direction or move away(1st law) so if a push  is acted on by a person on the opposite team then the other team wins because nothing pushes it out.

Answer 7

Not quite. The simplified version of the third law is "every action has an equal and opposite reaction", but the two teams in a tug of war are not the action/reaction.

If you think of a tug of war, when the teams pull they lean back and push with their feet while pulling on the rope - the action is pushing on the ground, the reaction is the ground "pushing" back.

Who wins is determined partly by which team is stronger, which team hangs on to the rope tighter, and which team keeps their footing better.  

Answer 8

The force of friction.