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Motion Forces and Energy Chapter 2 Flashcards

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Force

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A push or pull

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Balanced forces

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Forces that are in opposite directions and equal in size

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Unbalanced forces

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The total force on an object is in one direction

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Fluid Friction

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The friction exerted by fluid

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Sliding Friction

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Solid objects slide over each other

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Rolling Friction

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The friction produced by objects such as wheels or ball bearings

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Fluid Friction

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The friction exerted by fluid

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Inertia

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The tendency of matter to resist a change in motion

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Newton’s First Law Of Motion

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When an object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion at constant velocity unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

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Newtons Second Law Of Motion

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Describes how force,acceleration, and mass are related.

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Newtons Third Law Of Motion

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States that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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Gravity

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A force of attraction that exists between all objects in the universe.

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Weight

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A measure of the force of gravity on an object

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Net force

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Combination of all forces acting on an object

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air resistance

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frictional force air exerts on a moving object; acts opposite in direction to the object’s motion, fluid friction acting on an object moving through the air

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static friction

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friction that acts on objects that are not moving

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Newton

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SI Unit for Energy

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Mass

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A measure of the amount of matter in an object

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Terminal Velocity

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The greatest velocity a falling object can reach.

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Projectile

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An object that is thrown

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momentum

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characteristic of a moving object that is related to the mass and the velocity. momentum=mass x velocity

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law of conservation of momentum

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in the absence of outside forces, the total momentum of object s that interact does not change.

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