Question

Which of the following actions can be grouped as push?
a. A cricket ball hit by a batsman.
b. A football player kicking the ball.
c. A girl is shutting the open door of a refrigerator.
A) Only a
B) Only a and b
C) Only b and c
D) a, b and c

Answer 1

Hint: A push is when a force is applied on a body to move it towards the direction of the force and usually away from the person who’s pushing it. We need to check the actions in which the object is being pushed in the direction away from the person.

Complete answer:
When a cricket ball is hit by a batsman, the ball is hit in a direction away from the batsman towards the boundaries of the cricket stadium. Hence, we can say that the ball is pushed by the bat away from the player hence the statement ‘a’ is correct.
Similarly, when a football player hits the ball, it is kicked away by the player towards the goal. So, the player is pushing the ball away from him so statement ‘b’ is also correct
When a girl is shutting the open door of a refrigerator, she is pushing the door away from her to close the door. So, the statement ‘c’ is also correct.
Since all the three statements are correct, the correct choice is option (D) as all the actions in the statement can be grouped as a push action.

Note:
In statement c., if the girl was opening the door of the refrigerator, it would not have been a push action but instead a pull action. It is helpful for us to visualize all these actions and try to imagine if on applying force the object will move away or towards the person. The actions in which the object moves away from the person are all push actions and vice versa.