Imagine I threw something in space with a certain force, will it keep going forever in the direction thrown since there is no resistance? Or will it stop depending on the force?
Also suppose so much time has passed will the object still be floating (still moving a little bit here and there) or will it stand exactly still.
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Force is not a useful way to look at this. Once it’s moving, there’s no force, it keeps moving.
Of course, in space, there’s still all sorts of gravity, so there’s still forces acting on it. Those forces are just usually also acting on you, if you just threw the object, so you’re falling with it and it doesn’t seem to do anything.
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