Force in basketball?

Question

As a basketball player starts to jump for a rebound, the player begins to move upward faster and faster until his shoes leave the floor. During the time that the player is in contact with the floor, the force of the floor on the shoes is:

a. greater than the player's weight.

b. equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the player's weight.

c. less than the player's weight.

d. zero

what else happens in regards to force in the jumping upwards.

what is the action and reaction force?

Answer 1

The force placed on the shoe is equal to the force that the shoe pushes off from the floor. This is if you

This is taken from:

Newton's Third law

    Whenever a particle A exerts a force on another particle B, B simultaneously exerts a force on A with the same magnitude in the opposite direction. The strong form of the law further postulates that these two forces act along the same line. This law is often simplified into the sentence

"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."

A more precise statement would be,

Whenever an object applies a force (an action) to a secoind object, the second object applies an equal and opposite force (called a reaction) to the first object.

so from the available choices, B looks like the most correct answer.

Action force is feet pushing of ground and reaction force is ground pushing on feet, giving the leverage.