🚀 Forces: Push & Pull
Forces make things move, speed up, slow down, change shape or stay still.
📎 Curriculum reference: Singapore Primary Science Teaching & Learning Syllabus (2023) — reference only; original EduManual content. · ✅ Verified by EduManual Science Team
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📖 Key words
💪 Force · 力 · daya
A push or a pull — that is all a force is!
A push or a pull that can change how something moves.
🛑 Friction · 摩擦力 · geseran
The rub that slows things down.
A force that slows things down when they rub together.
🦸 Myth busters for this topic
❌ "Heavier objects always fall faster than lighter ones."
✅ In a vacuum, all objects fall at the same rate. In air, only air resistance makes some things fall more slowly.
A feather falls slowly because air pushes it, not because it is light. On the Moon, a feather and a hammer dropped together land at the same time!
Try it yourself: Drop a flat sheet of paper and a scrunched-up paper ball. Same paper, but one falls much faster — because of air, not weight!