Vocabulary
Newton's Laws
Friction
Misc.
100
a push or a pull
What is force?
100
For every action, there is an opposite, but equal reaction.
What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?
100
What friction creates.
What is heat?
100
The speed and direction of an object.
What is velocity?
200
A measure of the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
200
This is Newton's first law of motion.
What is an object in motion will stay in motion and an object at rest will stay at rest until acted upon by an unbalanced force?
200
A force that opposes the motion of one object moving past another.
What is friction?
200
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
300
This is how fast an object is moving at any given moment.
What is speed?
300
If the mass of an object were doubled, this would also have to be doubled to achieve the same acceleration.
What is force?
300
Friction has to overcome this in order to bring an object to a stop.
What is inertia?
300
During a tug-of-war, neither side is winning. This is an example of...
What is a balanced force?
400
Forces that do NOT cancel each other out when acting together on a single object.
What are unbalanced forces?
400
An objects resistance to change.
What is inertia?
400
The U.S. curling team wanted to create this during the Olympics.
What is less friction?
400
Force of gravity between Earth and an object.
What is weight?
500
This is a change in velocity.
What is acceleration?
500
This equation represents Newton's second law of motion.
What is Force=mass(x)acceleration (f=ma)?
500
Person who understood that a force called friction acts against moving objects.
Who is Galileo?
500
Force is measured in units called...
What is Newtons?
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