Physics Basics
Forces
1D Motion
Momentum
Circular and Projectile Motion
100
Resistance to change in motion
What is inertia?
100
A representation of all the forces acting on an object
What is free-body diagram?
100
Location, based on a coordinate system
What is position?
100
Inertia in motion
What is momentum?
100
Resistance to change in rotation
What is rotational inertia?
200
Measure of inertia
What is mass?
200
Sum of all the forces acting on an object
What is net force?
200
How far something travels
What is distance?
200
Equal to change in momentum; force x time
What is impulse?
200
Center-seeking force
What is centripetal?
300
Size or amount of something
What is magnitude?
300
Object in motion stays in motion and object at rest stays at rest, unless acted on by an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's 1st Law?
300
Change in position
What is displacement?
300
Collision in which objects bounce off each other
What is elastic?
300
Fictitious, center-fleeing force
What is centrifugal?
400
Quantity with magnitude only
What is scalar?
400
Acceleration is caused by a net force acting on a mass
What is Newton's 2nd Law?
400
Rate of change of position
What is velocity?
400
Collision in which objects stick together
What is inelastic?
400
Rotational inertia in motion
What is angular momentum?
500
Quantity with magnitude and direction
What is vector?
500
For every force, there is an equal and opposite force.
What is Newton's 3rd Law?
500
Rate of change of velocity?
What is acceleration?
500
The total momentum of a system remains constant
What is conservation of momentum?
500
A moving object on which only gravity is acting
What is projectile?
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