In Star Wars what does the balance of the force actually mean?
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The balance between good and evil.
1071523
yup you are right. The force requires matter. Like a tree in the forest falling. Sound waves are created but if no one hears it does it really exist?
778567
Constant speed means zero net force.  So what's balancing the air friction?
1178122
A force is conservative if it can be described as the gradient of a scalar potential. So for instance gravity is conservative because it is proportional to the gradient of the gravitational potential energy.
52544
A 'force' is just a convention.\n\nWhen things happened, such as someone pushed a physics book across a table, some people were curious and believed it was necessary to quantify what was happening.  They devised a set of conventions such as mass, motion, and acceleration.  When an object wasn't moving, and then later was moving, they said that something had acted on it, and they called that something a 'force'.\n\nThen they were able to relate these terms in mathematical equations, such as F=ma; this made it possible to predict what would happen in certain circumstances, so people knew that these conventions were useful.
143993
Well, we are talking about the Dark Side... and the Dark Side corrupts and twist... and that just goes to show that it doesn't affect only the spirit... it says "Kids, don't go to the dark side or you'll lose all your hair" :)
165906
yes.  When the net force is zero, this means that it is in equilibrium, and therefore the forces on the object must be the same.  The saying everything up equals everything down, and everything left equals everything right applys here.
785798
I already answered your previous question :-)\n\nBTW, it is balanced because the number of atoms of each element is equla on both sides.
510905
the force would be determined on how far to the side you are zig zaging. the distance does not matter because it has nothing to do with the force, but with the stamina you have to keep pedaling.
598835
Newton's gravitational constant (G) hasn't changed one bit because of Relativity (and is in fact one of only two constants in GR the other being the cosmological constant (Λ) which was thought to be zero but is now known not to be).\n\nThough I don't think there would be any meaning of a ratio between G and Λ
912606
The simple answer is that the vector sum of the forces acting on an object must be zero if the object is to remain in "equilibrium" or in other words to have constant velocity.
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only in another universe called "Zog"\n\nwhere the dominating force is sound
686062
I believe a lot of people put down "Jedi" as religion in the census. I heard this a few years ago, so it is possible that they also put "Force".
1032031
It does not need to be balanced like and airplane but it does need to be balanced. An airplane has to have lift and weight in balance, or the weight has to be balanced over the wings. A space craft has to be balanced over it's rocket engine, or the direction that the rocket engine thrusts has to pass through the center of gravity of the space craft.
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To understand this quandary you must look at a much bigger picture. since gravitational force is determined by an objects mass the earth actually exerts a much greater force on the object than the object exerts on the earth. Now this is where you must remember Newton's second law - if an unbalanced force acts on an object the object will accelerate in the direction of the force. The unbalanced force is the force of gravity the larger mass (earth in this case) exerts on the smaller object. The acceleration in the direction of the force is what we call gravity. It is true that the object exerts a reaction force but the maximum force it exerts is only the force of gravity it can generate based on it's mass. Since it weighs less it's force is not strong enough to move the earth.
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you have to balance it...
50267
The balance is not propotion!