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If you push a book on a table, it stops after moving for some distance. What happens if you push a book from the opposite directions. Give reasons for the below points
Does the book stop this time, too?

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Book will stop this when you push from opposite direction also because friction opposes relative motion between the surface of the book and the table.
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