Gravity and Motion Vocabulay Flashcards

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Gravity

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Attracts all objects toward each other.

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Force

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A push or a pull

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Law of Universal Gravitation

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States that every object in the universe attracts every other object

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Mass

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The amount of matter in an object

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Weight

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The measure of the of gravity on an object

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Inertia

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The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion

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Newton’s First Law of Motion

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An object at rest will stay at rest an an object in motion will stay in motion

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