Measuring Motion
Forces and Motion
Newton's Laws
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Airplane Forces
100
The location of an object.
What is position?
100
Any push or pull from one object to another.
What is force?
100
Newton's First Law says an object wants to keep doing what it is ______ ______.
What is "already doing."
100
The change in velocity over time.
What is acceleration?
100
The force produced by the engine that moves the airplane forward.
What is thrust?
200
A change in position over time.
What is motion?
200
The force that pulls all objects together, big or small.
What is gravity?
200
Newton's Second Law is defined by this equation.
What is Force = mass x acceleration.
200
Defined as mass x velocity.
What is momentum?
200
The force that opposes thrust, pulling on the airplane and slowing it down.
What is drag?
300
A way of using objects near you to describe your position.
What is frame of reference?
300
A force that slows the motion of one object moving past another.
What is friction?
300
Newton's Third Law states that for every action, there is an ______ and ______ reaction.
What are "equal" and "opposite"?
300
The equation to measure this is: Distance / Time.
What is speed?
300
The force created by air moving over the airplane wings.
What is lift?
400
How fast an object's position changes over time.
What is speed?
400
The force that slows objects moving through the air.
What is air resistance?
400
The balloons picking up the pieces of paper was an example of this Law of Motion.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
400
The reason you can catch a baseball at 55 mph and not a truck at 55 mph is because the baseball has less ______.
What is mass?
400
The force that opposes lift and pulls the airplane down.
What is weight?
500
The measurement of both speed and direction of a moving object.
What is velocity?
500
When describing a frame of reference it is best to start _____ and get more ______.
What are "general" and "specific".
500
The skateboard experiment was an example of this Law of Motion.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
500
When you bounce a ball on the ground, the reason the ball comes back up is because the _______ pushes back on the ball.
What is ground?
500
This force is what causes a compass needle to point North.
What is magnetic force?
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