Motion And Forces Flashcards

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A location to which another location is compared

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Reference Point

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A object’s location

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Position

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A change of position over time

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Motion

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A measure of how fast something moved though a particular distance over a definite time period. Speed is distance divided by time

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Speed

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A speed in a specific direction

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Velocity

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A quantity that has both size and direction

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Vector

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A push or pull; something that changes a motion of a object.

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Force

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The overall force of acting on an object when all of the forces acting on it are combined.

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Net Force

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A scientific law that objects remain at rest, and objects that are in motion remain in motion with the same velocity, unless acted by a unbalanced force.

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Newton’s First Law

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The resistance of a object to change in the speed or the direction of its motion.

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Inertia

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A scientific law stating that the acceleration of an object increases with increased force and decreases with increased mass.

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Newton’s Second Law

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Any force that keeps an object moving in a circle.

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Centripetal Force

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A scientific law stating that every time one object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts a force that is equal in size and opposite in direction back on the first object.

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Newton’s Third Law

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