A book is given a brief shove along a table top and released so that it slides a short distance and comes to rest. According to Aristotle, it stopped because
A) of gravity.
B) the ether slows it down to a stop.
C) its natural motion is to come to rest.
D) of friction.
E) of its inertia.

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Aristotle believed that the natural state of objects is to be at rest, and they require a force to keep moving. Hence, he would say the book stops because its natural motion is to come to rest.

A Book Is Given a Brief Shove Along a Table