A push or pull due to interaction between objects to explain changes in motion
What is a force?
A measure of the amount of matter in a body
What is mass?
An instrument used specifically to measure weight
What is a spring balance?
Mass per unit volume
What is density?
The constant direction of the normal force relative to a surface
What is perpendicular?
The area required to produce the minimum pressure for a constant force
What is the maximum contact area?
Attractive or repulsive forces between electric charges
What is electrostatic force?
The SI unit for pressure
What is the Pascal?
The relationship between pressure and force for a constant area
What is directly proportional?
Gravitational force per unit mass placed at a point
What is gravitational field strength?
Pull exerted by stretched spring, string or rope on object attached to it
What is tension?
Pull exerted by Earth's gravity on any object that has mass
What is gravitational force?
Force acting per unit area
What is pressure?
An instrument used to measure mass besides an electronic balance
What is a beam balance?
The general category for forces like gravitational and magnetic forces
What are non-contact forces?
Attractive or repulsive forces between magnets
What is magnetic force?
A region in which a mass experiences a force due to gravitational attraction
What is a gravitational field?
The gravitational force acting on an object that has mass
What is weight?
The classification of mass as a type of physical quantity
What is a scalar quantity?
The classification of weight as a type of physical quantity
What is a vector quantity?
The unit equivalent to one Pascal
What is one Newton per square metre?
The SI unit for density
What is kg/m3?
The SI unit for weight
What is the Newton?
The property of mass regarding changes in location, shape, or speed
What is independent?
A common unit for density other than the SI unit
What is g/cm3?
The relationship between pressure and contact area for a constant force
What is inversely proportional?
The unit used for gravitational field strength, g
What is N/kg?
Frictional force exerted by air that opposes motion of moving objects
What is air resistance?
The value of acceleration due to gravity on Earth
What is 10 m/s2?
The value of gravitational field strength on Earth
What is 10 N/kg?