Motion
Speed, Velocity and Acceleration
Newton's 3 Laws
Forces
Misc.
100
A change in position with respect to a reference point.
What is motion?
100
The equation for speed.
What is speed = distance/time?
100
The equation for Newton's Second Law of motion.
What is Force = Mass x Acceleration?
100
The SI unit for force.
What is the Newton?
100
An object that is thrown.
What is a projectile?
200
On an elevator you are not moving compared to what reference point?
What is the elevator? Also, acceptable: What is another person on the elevator?
200
The difference between an object's speed and its velocity.
What is direction?
200
The tendency for an object to resist any change in motion.
What is inertia?
200
A force acting on an object that changes the object's motion.
What is an unbalanced force?
200
The product of mass and velocity.
What is momentum?
300
The type of graph used to show motion.
What is a distance-time graph?
300
A straight line on a speed-time graph represents.
What is constant acceleration?
300
Forces that are equal and opposite, but do not cancel out.
What is action-reaction forces?
300
The strength of frictional force depends on these two factors.
What are the type of surface and how hard the surfaces push together?
300
The total momentum of objects that interact is...
What is conserved?
400
What is a reference point assumed to be?
What is stationary, or not moving?
400
A race car rounding a curve at constant speed is an example this type of acceleration.
What is changing direction?
400
Rocket propulsion is an example of this Newton Law.
What is Newton's third law of motion?
400
The force of gravity on a person or object.
What is weight?
400
The reason a feather and a brick do NOT hit the ground at the same time when dropped from the same height.
What is air resistance?
500
A projectile's horizontal motion does not interfere with this.
What is free fall?
500
This type of line represents acceleration on a distance-time graph.
What is a curved line?
500
Two ways to increase acceleration.
What is increase the force or decrease mass?
500
Gravitational force depends on these two factors.
What is mass and the distance between two objects?
500
This is reached when the air resistance equals the force of gravity.
What is terminal velocity?
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