Newton's 1st law
What is a real life situation where Newton's 1st law is used?
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What is a real life situation where Newton's 2nd law is used?
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What is a real life situation where Newton's 3rd law is used?
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Which of Newton's laws are in play when a baseball is hit off a tee by a bat?
Newton's 1st law
What does it mean for an object to be at rest?
The object has no motion. Om/s
What is acceleration?
The change in speed or direction something is going a second every second.
This law states that every action has what?
An equal and opposite reaction.
A rolling bowling ball had more force than a rolling ping pong ball. Which of Newton's laws does this utilize?
Newton's 2nd law
If you were riding in your car with books on your lap, what would happen if your car suddenly stopped?
Your books would fly forward
What is the formula for force?
F = MA
(force = (mass * acceleration)
Bouncing or dribbling a ball is an example of which of Newton's laws of motion?
Newton's 3rd law
What is the study of motion called?
Kinematics
What is Newton's 1st law?
Something at rest stays at rest unless something forces it to move, and something in motion stays in motion in a straight line unless something forces it to stop moving.
What is Newton's second law of motion?
Force is what causes an object to change speed or direction. The change is resisted by the mass of the object. (F=MA)
What is Newton's third law of motion?
For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
if someone shoots a basketball and it bounces off the rim and comes right back, which law of motion is in action?
Newton's 3rd law, Inertia
What is another name for Newton's 1st law?
The law of Inertia
A ball lying still on a field will not move unless acted on by this.
What is an unbalanced force?
A swimmer pushes water backward to move forwards because of which law?
Newton's 3rd law.
Who was Isaac Newton?
could include a great creationist physicist and mathematician; discoverer of the spectrum of light and the laws of motion, gravity, and cooling; inventor of the reflecting telescope; coinventor of mathematical calculus.