Newton’s First Law
The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion.
What is inertia? (p. 42)
The formula that defines force, mass, and acceleration.
What is F = ma? (p. 45)
The law that states action and reaction forces are equal and opposite.
What is Newton’s Third Law? (p. 48)
The force that resists motion between two surfaces.
What is friction? (p. 50)
The formula used to calculate momentum.
What is p = mv? (p. 54)
Another name for Newton’s First Law.
What is the law of inertia?
The quantity that F stands for in F = ma.
What is force? (p. 45)
The force that occurs when you push on a wall.
What is the wall pushes back equally? (p. 48)
The type of friction between two sliding surfaces.
What is sliding friction? (p. 51)
The meaning of “p” in the momentum formula.
What is momentum? (p. 54)
This happens to an object at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force.
What is it stays at rest? (p. 42)
The metric unit for measuring force.
What is a newton? (p. 46)
The reason action and reaction forces don’t cancel out.
What is they act on different objects? (p. 48)
The force that pulls objects toward Earth’s center.
What is gravity? (p. 52)
The unit used to measure momentum.
What is kg·m/s? (p. 54)
A type of force that causes motion to change.
What is an unbalanced force? (p. 43)
The effect on acceleration when mass increases but force stays the same
What is acceleration decrease? (p.46)
The reason a rocket lifts off the ground.
What is gases push downward, rocket moves upward? (p. 49)
The law that explains how mass and distance affect gravitational force.
What is the Law of Universal Gravitation? (p. 52)
The principle that states total momentum stays the same unless acted on.
What is the Law of Conservation of Momentum? (p. 55)
What a ball in space would keep doing without friction or gravity.
What is move at a constant speed in a straight line? (p. 44)
The net force acting on a 10 kg object accelerating at 3 m/s².
What is 30 N? (p. 47)
The reaction force when you push backward on the ground while walking.
What is the ground pushes you forward? (p. 49)
The condition astronauts experience in orbit.
What is free fall? (p. 53)
The result when two objects stick together after colliding.
What is a perfectly inelastic collision? (p. 56)