Don't Force It
General name for any force that has to touch the object to act on it
What is contact?
A stationary place or object used to determine if motion has occurred, or as a way to give directions
What is a reference point?
Term that describes the distance an object travels divided by the time it takes
What is speed or average speed?
The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion and keep doing what it's doing
What is inertia?
The average speed of a car that travels 200 miles in 4 hours
What is 50 miles per hour?
General term for any force that does not have to touch an object to act on it
What is non-contact?
The metric unit of force
What is a Newton?
Term that describes an object's speed at one moment in time (like a radar gun would)
What is instantaneous?
The phrase "equal and opposite" is associated with this law
What is Newton's Third Law
Distance traveled by a bicyclist who pedaled at 8 miles per hour for 4 hours
What is 32 miles?
Also called elastic force, the force exerted by a stretching or bending object on any object that is attached to it.
What is spring force?
A force of attraction between any two objects that have mass
What is gravitational force?
The rate at which velocity changes
What is acceleration?
The law often referred to as the law of inertia
What is Newton's First Law?
Time required to travel 300 meters at 10 meters per second
What is 30 seconds?
The force an object exerts on an object that moves across it
What is friction?
The combination of all the forces acting on an object at a given moment
What is net force?
The two pieces of information needed to determine an object's velocity
What is speed and direction?
The law that states that Force = mass x acceleration
What is Newton's Second Law?
Average speed of a cruise ship that sails 1,200 kilometers in 60 hours
What is 20 kilometers per hour?
A force in which one object directly pushes or pulls on another object, like a teacher pushing a student in a chair
What is applied force?
Term that describes forces that are not equal that produce acceleration
What is unbalanced?
Adjective that describes the type of acceleration when an object is slowing down
What is negative?
The country in which Isaac Newton lived and completed his work
What is England?
Time required to walk 1 mile at 4 miles per hour
What is 1/4 hour or 15 minutes?