Types of Force

There are 2 main types of force are-

1. Contact force : Forces which are exerted by one object on another when they are in contact with each other are called as contact force.

a. Muscular force : Muscular power is the power applied utilizing portions of the body like arms or legs. It is a force that results because of the action of muscles and is a contact force since there is contact between the surfaces. Muscular force is required whenever the movement of the body occurs. Strolling, lifting, getting up from a seat, crossing a leg, and so on all require muscular force.

b. Mechanical force: A mechanical force can be defined as a force that features some direct contact between two objects (one applying the force and another which is in a state of rest or in a state of motion) and results in the production of a change in the state of the object (state of rest or state of motion).

c. Frictional force: Frictional force refers to the force generated by two surfaces that contacts and slide against each other.

2. Non- Contact force: Forces which are exerted by one object on another without any contact with each other are called as non contact force.

a. Gravitational force: The gravitational force is a force that attracts any two objects with mass. We call the gravitational force attractive because it always tries to pull masses together, it never pushes them apart. In fact, every object, including you, is pulling on every other object in the entire universe! This is called Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation.

b. Electrostatic force: The electrostatic force is an attractive and repulsive force between particles are caused due to their electric charges. The electric force between stationary charged body is conventionally known as the electrostatic force. It is also referred to as Columb’s force.

c. Magnetic force: If we place a point charge q in the presence of both a magnitude field given by magnitude B(r) and an electric field given by a magnitude E(r), then the total force on the electric charge q can be written as the sum of the electric force and the magnetic force acting on the object (F_electric + F_magnetic ).

Magnetic force can be defined as:

The magnetic force between two moving charges may be described as the effect exerted upon either charge by a magnetic field created by the other.