FORCE
Force is ________ or _________.
What is a push or pull.
Sliding down a slide is this type of motion.
What is a straight line?
Name the type of energy that means work has been done, or the energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Name the two things you need to know to figure out an object's speed.
What are distance and time?
What type of scale measures force in Newtons?
What is a spring scale?
Force is measured in this unit, named after a famous mathematician.
What is a newton?
Swinging on a swing is this type of motion.
What is back and forth motion (or zigzag motion)?
Name the type of energy that is stored?
What is potential energy?
Describe how to calculate speed.
What is distance divided by time?
What is work?
What is something you manually?
If two people are applying force to the same object but in opposite directions, this is called _________ force.
What is balanced force?
Riding on a merry-go-round is this type of motion.
What is a curved motion?
Explain one example of how energy changes in the same object.
What is a swing, a wind-up toy, or a roller coaster?
Describe how you increased the speed of the marble in our experiment.
What is raise the height?
Of a ping-pong ball, a golf ball, and a soccer ball, the object that requires the LEAST amount of force to move.
What is a ping-pong ball?
Objects with _____ mass require more force to move.
What is more?
The number of Newton's Laws of Motion.
What is 3?
The type of energy that a roller coaster has at the top of the hill.
What is potential energy?
The forces that slow the speed of a moving object.
What are gravity and friction?
Describe the difference in force needed to slide a button 10cm across a table and a hockey puck 10cm across the same table.
What is more force?
This type of force keeps water in a bucket when it's swung around.
What is centripetal force?
Name one of Newton's Laws of Motion. It MUST be a complete answer!
What is 1. an object at rest stays at rest unless a force acts upon it, OR 2. a force acting on an object, will change it's speed or direction or both, OR 3. for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The type of energy a roller coaster has going DOWN the hill.
What is kinetic energy?
The speed of an object traveling 180cm in 2 seconds.
What is 90cm/second?
Define mass.
What is the amount of matter an object has, or the amount of space an object takes up?