normal contact force
What normal contact force means in Physics GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
The push of a surface on an object resting against it, acting at right angles to that surface.
A push perpendicular to a surface, such as a table supporting a book.
The force exerted by a surface on an object, which acts perpendicularly to the surface.
Topics that use normal contact force
- Contact and non-contact forces (AQA GCSE)
- Moments, levers and gears (physics only) (AQA GCSE)
- Newton's laws (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Equilibrium
- friction
- Interaction Pair
- Newton's third law
- resultant
- acting on different objects
- attraction and repulsion
- balanced beam
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