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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
Push: to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away. "To the floor" indicates motion in a direction, and describes a dynamic relationship between the ball and floor.
Newton would insist that one property of an object that is being/has been pushed is that it continues in motion, in the same direction, once the motivating force is removed.
OTOH, the OP said "A1 places the ball on the floor". Place indicates an object has been moved to a new location without imparting independent force to it. An object that has been placed will not continue in motion. "On the floor" indicates a location without implying motion, it describes static relationship.
Pushing the ball to the floor, is a very different act than placing the ball on the floor. To argue that placing is a form of pushing is wrong.
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Complete doodoo.
So you are going to contend that no force was applied and that there was no motion involved in getting the ball to that location?
How ridiculous.
Also, there are two forces at work in your "static relationship." Gravity is exerting a downward force on the ball which is being met by an equal and opposite upward force from the floor. So take that, Mr. Science Guy.
