The document discusses forces and their characteristics. It defines a force as a push or pull, and notes that forces can include twists, bends, turns, squashes and stretches. Forces are either contact forces or non-contact forces. Vectors are quantities that have both magnitude and direction, while scalars only have magnitude. Examples of vectors include force, velocity and acceleration, while examples of scalars include speed, energy and temperature. The document also explains how to add forces along a line by treating them as directed numbers and accounting for their positive or negative direction.