In your journey to create free body diagrams, I encourage you to properly label your forces. This will help you find forces that really shouldn't be there.

Learn about Newton’s three laws, terminal velocity, contact and non-contact forces and free body diagrams with GCSE Bitesize Combined Science.

In this Closer Look segment on free body diagrams, we break down how to draw free body diagrams and work through three different examples.

Free body diagrams - Higher Resultant force The resultant force is a single force that has the same overall effect as two or more forces acting together.