distance divided by time
what is speed?
A push or pull
What is a force?
The energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
An object in motion will stay in motion and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force
What is Newton's First Law?
The variable that is purposely changed in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
Which is a measurement of speed?
Meters/inch
seconds/hour
meters/minute
What is meters/minute?
The sum of 2 or more forces
What is a net force?
As you move higher on a roller coaster, this type of energy increases
What is potential energy?
For every force there is an equal force in the opposite direction
What is Newton's Third Law?
These variables are usually kept the same during an experiment
What is a constant?
If John ran 10 meters in 5 seconds and Kevin ran 5 meters in 5 seconds, who is the faster runner?
Who is John?
When the sum of two forces equals 0
What is a balanced force?
When a person is skydiving and moving towards the ground, this type of energy increases
What is kinetic energy?
Acceleration depends on the mass of the object and the force applied to the object
What is Newton's Second Law?
The variable that usually is measured at the end of an experiment, it is affected by a change
What is a dependent variable?
Which line represents the faster speed?
What is the green line?
If there is a force pushing to the left 300N and another for pushing to the right 350N, what is the net force?
What is 50N to the right?
Food is chemical _________ energy
What is potential?
Three forces will be applied to an object.
10 Newtons
5 Newtons
20 Newtons
Which force will cause the object to accelerate the most?
What is 20 Newtons?
Susan did an investigation to figure out if changing the thickness of the paper with after how well a paper airplane will fly.
The thickness of the paper is...
What is the independent variable?
Which line represents the slowest speed?
What is the blue line?
Exerting too much force on the body can be dangerous, name an object that can help lessen the impact.
What are helmets, foam, armor, shields, etc?
This is known as stored energy and it can be transformed to another type of energy
What is potential energy?
The same amount of force is being applied to the following objects:
Object 1: 3 grams
Object 2: 7 grams
Object 3: 4 grams
Which object will accelerate the least?
What is object 2?
Jessica experimented with the softness of pillows to see if that will affect a person's sleep.
The amount of sleep a person gets is..
What is the dependent variable?