Gina’s family played croquet, a lawn game in which balls are hit by mallets. Each player hits his or her ball around a path. The first person to hit the stake at the end of the path is the winner. All of Newton’s laws can be illustrated by a game of croquet. An image of a croquet ball being ready to be hit by a mallet hammer.

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When the mallet hits the ball with an action force, the ball exerts a reaction force on the mallet, as explained by
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. The ball starts to move when the mallet applies a net force to it, as explained by
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. Once a ball is hit and no longer touches the mallet, it continues moving because of its inertia, as explained by
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Explanation:

When the mallet hits the ball with an action force, the ball exerts a reaction force on the mallet, as explained by  newton's third law of motion

According to Newton's third law of motion, action and reaction are equal and opposite.

The ball starts to move when the mallet applies a net force to it, as explained by  newton's "second law of motion"

According to newton's second law of motion "the net force on a body is the product of mass and acceleration of the resultant of forces"

Once a ball is hit and no longer touches the mallet, it continues moving because of its inertia, as explained by netwon's first law of motion;

"according to the first law,  body will continue in its state of rest or of uniform motion unless if it is acted upon by an external force". The law is also known as the law of inertia.