GCSE Physics (OCR A)

Topic Summaries

Forces

Free body diagrams

  • A free body diagram shows the forces acting on an object with arrows to signify the forces and their directions.
  • The resultant force in the horizontal and vertical directions can be found by finding then adding or subtracting the forces in those directions.

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