A student rolled a red basketball across a gym floor toward a blue basketball, which was motionless. When the balls collided, the student observed that the red basketball had stopped moving and concluded that the blue basketball had exerted a force on the red ball. Evaluate the student’s conclusion by answering the following questions. • What force acted on the red ball during the collision?

• Compare the forces that acted on the two balls during the collision.

• Given that the red basketball stopped moving, predict the motion of the blue basketball after the collision.

• Was the student’s conclusion correct?

Atown located beside a river derives a large percentage of its revenues each year from the local logging industry. however, heavy traffic to and from the logging sites has increased pollution and contributed to soil erosion. this has also resulted in the loss of native bird species in the logged forests. which of the following is the most sustainable solution to this problem? protecting certain forested areas to allow the birds to recover relocating the equipment and vehicles to new forests for logging relocating the birds to new forests away from the town introducing new bird species to replace the species that have been lost reducing the number of trucks traveling through the forest by 10 percent