Motion Vocab
Force Vocab
Formulas and Measurements
Definitions
100

The length of a path between 2 points

What is distance?

100

a push or a pull that one body exerts on another

What is a force?

100

S=d/t

What is speed formula?

100

Motion is always relative compared to something, that something is the...

Frame of Reference

200

Straight line distance (and direction) between the start and end

What is displacement?

200

unbalanced forces that are not opposite and equal in size

What is net force?

200

A=Vf - Vi/T

Acceleration formula

200

Has a number value and direction

Vector

300

Speed

What is a ratio of distance to time?

300

An object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon an outside force

Newton's First Law

300

9.80 m/s^2=(Vf-Vi)/t

Free Fall formula

300

A __________-______ graph can be used to determine speed

What is distance-time?

400

Speed with a direction

What is velocity?

400

Action and reaction

What is Newton's Third Law?

400

measured in m/s

Speed

400

If you are accelerating, then this is happening...

What is either getting faster or changing direction?

500

A change in velocity

What is acceleration?

500

The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass

What is Newton's Second Law?

500

9.80 m/s^2

The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the earth

500

The slope of the graph is...

What is the acceleration?

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