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Acceleration Due to Gravity

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The acceleration, g, experienced by an object travelling in freefall. Its value at the surface of earth is 10m/s²

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Acceleration

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The rate of change of velocity.

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Braking Distance

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The distance a vehicle travels under the braking force. This can be affected by adverse road conditions and weather conditions and the condition of the vehicle.

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Centripetal Force

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The resultant force that acts towards the centre of a circular path of an object travelling with circular motion.

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Circular Motion

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The motion of an object travelling in a circle. An object travelling in circular motion is always accelerating.

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Why is an object in circular motion always accelerating?

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Because of its continual direction change. This means centripetal force is always required.

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Conservation of momentum

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The total momentum of a system before an event is always equal to the total momentum of the system after the event.

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Displacement

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A measure of how far an object moves in a given direction. It is the straight line between the starting and finishing points in a vector quantity.

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Distance

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A measure of how far an object moves. It is a scalar quantity.

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Free-Fall

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Motion under the force of gravity alone.

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Human Reaction Time

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The time it takes for the brain to react to the stimulus.

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Typical Human Reaction Time

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0.2-0.9 Seconds

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Inertial Mass

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A measure of how hard it is to change an objects velocity.

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What is Inertial Mass equal to?

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Ratio of Force/Acce

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Unit of Force

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Newton

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Newtons First Law

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If an objects resultant force is zero the object will remain at a constant velocity.

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Newtons Second Law

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An objects acceleration is directly proportional to the resultant forces acting on it, and inversely proportional to the objects mass .

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Newtons Third Law

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The forces that two objects exert on each other when they interact are equal and opposite

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Resultant Force

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The single force that can replace all the individual forces acting on an object and have the same effect.

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Scalar Quantities

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Quantities that only have a magnitude.

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Speed

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A measure of change in distance.

Scalar Quantity

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Speed =

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Distance/Time

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Stopping Distance

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The sum of the thinking and breaking distances.

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Thinking Distance

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The distance a vehicle travels during the drivers reaction time. This can be affected by tiredness, drugs or alcohol.

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Vector Quantities

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Quantities that have a magnitude and a direction.

Represented by an arrow, length for magnitude and direction of arrowhead for direction.

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Velocity-Time Graph

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A plot of how an objects velocity changes over time.

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Gradient of a Velocity-Time Graph…

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Acceleration

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Area Underneath Velocity-Time Graph

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The objects displacement

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Velocity

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A measure of the rate of change of displacement.

Scalar Quantity

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Weight

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The force acting on an object due to gravity.

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Weight is Equal to…

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Mass*Gravitational Field Strength

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