Vocab Terms
Newton's Laws
Weight
Power and Work
Waves
100

The distance and direction of an object's change in position from the starting point.

What is displacement?

100

What is the sum of the forces that are acting on an object?

What is Net Force.
100

What is a net force that is directed toward the center of a curved or circular path?

What is known as centripetal force?

100

What is defined as the rate at which work is done?

What is power?
100

What is the lowest point on a transverse wave?

What is a trough?

200
What is the total distance traveled divided by the total time it takes to travel that distance?

Average Speed

200

What is term for an object's tendency to resist a change in it's motion?

What is inertia?

200

What is known as the acceleration of an object toward the center of a curved or circular path?

What is centripetal acceleration?

200

What is the energy of motion?

What is Kinetic Energy?

200

What is the material through which a wave transfers energy?

What is a medium?
300

What is the force of friction that opposes motion of one object sliding against another?

What is Friction.

300

What is an object that interact experience equal amount of force but in an opposite direction.

What is known as Newton's 2nd Law of Motion?

300

What is known as the attractive force between 2 objects that depends on the masses of the objects and the distance between them?

What is gravity?
300

What is the energy stored by objects due to their position above Earth's surface?

What is gravitational potential energy?

300

What is the ability of two or more waves to combine and form a new wave?

What is interference?

400

What is the friction of a moving object?

What is Kinetic Friction

400

The acceleration of an object is in the same direction as the net force; the net force equals the mass times the acceleration?

Newton's 2nd Law of Motion

400

What is the gravitational force exerted on an object?

What is weight?

400

What simple machine consists of an inclined plane wrapped in a spiral around a cylindrical post?

Screw

400

What is the distance between one point in a wave and the nearest point just like it?

What is a wavelength.

500

What is the friction that opposes the motion of an object at rest?

What is static friction?

500

What is known as the force that opposes the motion of objects that move through the air?

What is air resistance?

500

The property of a moving object that equals its mass times its velocity?

What is momentum?

500

What simple machine has an inclined plane with one or two sloping sides?

What is a wedge?
500

What is the measure of the energy in a wave?

What is an amplitude?

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