Learn about Newton’s three laws, terminal velocity, contact and non-contact forces and free body diagrams with GCSE Bitesize Physics.

Segment 3B: Free Body Diagrams We visit a bustling port on Georgia's coast to illustrate how free body diagrams help us analyze forces. Useful rules for drawing free body diagrams are also explained.

Hopefully now you have an idea of what a force is and what it isn't. What do you do with them? The useful thing to do with forces is to determine the total force acting on an object. At the ...

Which direction will the force arrow representing the normal reaction force be pointing in a free body diagram?