Froghoppers may be the insect jumping champs. these 6-mm-long bugs can spring 70 cm into the air, about the same distance as the flea. but the froghopper is 60 times more massive than a 12-mg flea. the froghopper pushes off for about 4 mm.

part a: what average force does it exert on the surface?
part b: compare this to the gravitational force that earth exerts on the big.
a) this is about 176 times less than the weight of the froghopper. b) this is about 176 times the weight of the froghopper. c) this is equal the weight of the froghopper.

Learning goal: to understand newton's 1st law. newton's principia states this first law of motion: an object subject to no net force maintains its state of motion, either at rest or at constant speed in a right line. this law may be restated as follows: if the sum of all forces acting on an object is zero, then the acceleration of that object is zero. mathematically this is just a special case of the 2nd law of motion, f⃗ =ma⃗ , when f⃗ =0. when studying newtonian mechanics, it is best to remember the 1st law in two ways: if the net force (i.e., sum of all forces) acting on an object is zero, the object will keep moving with constant velocity (which may be zero). if an object is moving with constant velocity, that is, with zero acceleration, then the net force acting on that object must be zero. complete the following sentences to see if you can apply these ideas. part a if a car is moving to the left with constant velocity, one can conclude that