Charlie takes his 6000 kg avalanche truck and runs it into Jill's 2003 Chevy Trailblazer. If Jill's truck is red, how does the force acting on Charlie's truck compare to the force acting on Jill's truck?
To compare the forces acting on Charlie's truck and Jill's truck, we need to use Newton's third law of motion, which states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
When Charlie's 6000 kg avalanche truck runs into Jill's 2003 Chevy Trailblazer, the force exerted by Charlie's truck on Jill's truck is equal in magnitude but opposite in direction to the force exerted by Jill's truck on Charlie's truck.
So, the force acting on Charlie's truck is equal and opposite to the force acting on Jill's truck.