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Make a free-body diagram of someone pushing a refrigerator that shows: a. A net force of 100 N with the refrigerator being pushed to the right. b. The refrigerator in equilibrium.

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When we want to find a net force that acts on a body, we have to find the vector sum of every force that is applied to said body.

In order for the net force to be equal to zero, the vector sum of all of the forces has to be zero as well.

The equilibrium situation is the situation in which the net force has to be zero.

Assume that the net force along the vertical Fnet,yF_{\mathrm{net,y}} is zero because the weight of the refrigerator FgF_{\mathrm{g}} is balanced with the normal force NN of the ground.

Fnet,y=FgN=0F_{\mathrm{net,y}}=F_{\mathrm{g}}-N=0

Then, we have to pay attention to the forces along the horizontal.

If we want the refrigerator to move in the direction to the right, the net force along the horizontal has to be nonzero and pointing to the right.

The equilibrium position, like we said above, means the net force acting on the refrigerator has to be zero, in all directions.

Check out the graphs for these two situations.

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