Laws of Gravity and more Flashcards
What law is: “To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”
Newton’s Third Law of Motion
What law is: “Force equals mass times acceleration (F=MxA)”
Newton’s Second Law of Motion
What law is: “An object at rest or at motion will remain still or at motion unless acted by a force”
Newton’s First Law of Motion
The highest Velocity reached by a falling object
Terminal Velocity
An object at rest on the surface of the Earth is experiencing zero…
Net Force
When an object moves in a circle, __________ acts to accelerate the object toward the center of that circle.
Centripetal Acceleration
When a car travels around a curve in the road, ___________ helps to keep the car traveling in a curved path
Centripetal Force
The force exerted by air on a moving object is called……
Air Resistance
A net force acting on an object causes the object to accelerate in the direction of the force; this is…..
An example of Newton’s Second Law of Motion
A property of a moving object resulting from its mass and velocity is…..
Momentum
According to the _________, when a bowling ball strikes the pins, the momentum lost by the bowling ball is equal to the momentum gained by the pins.
Conservation of Momentum
_________ is the force that every object in the universe exerts on every other object.
Gravity (or the Universal Law of Gravitation)
An object’s __________ is the measure of the force of gravity on that object.
Weight
The amount of gravitational force between two objects depends on their masses and the ________ between them.
Distance
Weight is measured in units called _______, while mass is measured in units called grams and kilograms.
Newtons