Forces And Motion Vocab

Question 1

Potential Energy

Answer 1

Stored Energy

Question 2

Repulsion

Answer 2

When an object exerts a pushing force against another object

Question 3

Speed

Answer 3

Distance traveled per unit of time

Question 4

Unbalanced Force

Answer 4

Forces that are not equal that cause an object to change its speed and/or its direction of motion.

Question 5

Velocity

Answer 5

Describes the speed and direction of an objects motion.

Question 6

Kinetic Energy

Answer 6

Energy of motion.

Question 7

Law Of Conservation of Energy

Answer 7

A principle stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can be altered from one form to another.

Question 8

Magnet

Answer 8

Objects that exert an invisible force; made of iron, cobalt, and nickel.

Question 9

Mass

Answer 9

How much matter is in an object.

Question 10

Momentum

Answer 10

Describes the quantity of motion on an object has; depends on mass and velocity.

Question 11

Net Force

Answer 11

=The combined result of all forces acting on an object.

Question 12

Newton’s First Law

Answer 12

Law that states an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced forces.

Question 13

Newton’s Second Law

Answer 13

This law establishes the equation F=ma.

Question 14

Newton’s Third Law

Answer 14

Law that states for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Question 15

Acceleration

Answer 15

Describes the change in an object’s velocity over time.

Question 16

Applied Force

Answer 16

A force administered by a person or object that causes a second person or object to move. For example, a person pushes or pulls end object to change its motion.

Question 17

Attraction

Answer 17

When an object exerts a pulling force on another object.

Question 18

Balanced Force

Answer 18

Two forces acting in opposite directions on an object, and equal n size. The object stays still or continues moving at the same speed end in the same direction..

Question 19

Electric Force

Answer 19

En invisible force created by electrically charged particles . ,

Question 20

Eloctromagnet

Answer 20

A wire wraped around a coil that causes a magnetic field to be produced bu an elctrical current.

Question 21

Force

Answer 21

A push or pull that results when two or more objects interact with each other.

Question 22

Firction

Answer 22

A forces that opposes motion. This force workds in the opposite direction of en maoving object.

Question 23

Gravitiational Force

Answer 23

Force that attracts any two objects with mass.

Question 24

Normal Forc e

Answer 24

THe force that surfaces exert to prevent en object to move.

Question 25

Unteria

Answer 25

THe resitiance of an object to move.