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Regarding with the passage I read yesterday entitled, “Sir Isaac Newton and Lebron James”, I learned that Newton’s Third Law tells us that to every action, there’s always an equal and opposite reaction. But how come that Lebron James dunks a basketball illustrates Newton’s Third Law of Motion? Lebron James is a big man. He is 6 feet, 8 inches tall. He weighs 245 pounds. When he is standing upright with his arms raised above his hand, his reach extends to 8 feet and 10¼ inches. When Lebron James shoots the ball he is clearly applying a force to it. But where is the equal and opposite reaction that Newton’s Third Law tells us about? Well, that’s going to be the force that the ball is applying to the hand of James. When Lebron James jumps to dunk a basketball, he is using energy to drive force into the court. This force is the “action” that Newton mentioned in his Third Law. The “reaction” comes from the ground pushing Lebron James upwards with an opposite and equal amount of force.sdssjdcbfdhjs...