Describing Motion and Force
Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration
Newton's Laws of Motion
Friction and Gravitational Force
Formulas and Vocabulary
100
A place or object used for comparison to determine whether an object is in motion.

What is a reference point?

100

The definition of this word is: the distance an object travels per unit of time.

What is speed?

100

There are this many of Newton's Laws.

What is three

100

Rubbing two objects together creates this.

What is friction?

100

The definition of average.

What is in the middle or normal?

200

The measurement of the strength of a force.

What is a Newton?

200

The three changes in acceleration.

What are increase in speed, decrease in speed, and change in direction?

200

Newton's first law explains this.

What is inertia?

200

This measurement never changes, not matter where you go.

What is mass?

200

Newton's formula to calculate force.

What is net force = mass x acceleration

300

Contact forces are described as this.

What is when one object touches another object?

300

The formula to calculate acceleration is

What is Acceleration = final speed - initial speed / time?

300

Newton's second law is this.

What is a force gives an object acceleration, the acceleration depends on the object's mass.

300

List the four types of friction.

What are rolling, sliding, static, and fluid?

300

The formula to calculate acceleration.

What is acceleration = final speed - initial speed / time
400

Gravity pulls you towards earth. It is this kind of force.

What is noncontact?

400

The speed you are traveling right now.

What is instantaneous speed?

400

Newton's third law explains this.

What is for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction?

400

The acceleration due to gravity at Earth's surface is this measurement.

What is 9.8m/s2?

400

Not fixed, not absolute.

What is relative?

500

A force pushes 6N to the right and an opposite force pushes 2N to the left. The resulting force is this.

What is 4N to the left?

500

A straight line on a graph measures this.

What is speed and time?

500

Extracted from, drawn out of, or obtained from a source.

What is derived?

500

The mass of a man is 40kg on Earth, his weight his 185 lbs. His weight on the moon is 1/6.

What is 30.8 lbs?

500

The formula to calculate slope.

What is slope = rise / run?

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