Vocabulary
Newton's Laws
Difference
Forces
Other
100
Speed at a particular instant
What is instantaneous speed?
100
An object at motion will stay in motion until an unbalanced force acts upon it.
What is inertia?
100
One is length of a straight line from the starting point to the ending point. The other is the length of a path taken by an object.
What is displacement and distance?
100
This force acts in the opposite direction of motion. There are four different types of this forces.
What is friction?
100
If 1 kilometer equals 1,000 meters, the prefix kilo- means what?
What is 1,000
200
Strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force, and gravitational force. What are these?
What is universal forces?
200
Product of an object's mass and velocity is this.
What is momentum?
200
One is an increase in speed. The other is a decrease in speed.
What is positive acceleration and negative acceleration?
200
The weakest universal force.
What is gravitational force?
200
Opposite charges _______________ while like charges ____________.
What is attract and repel?
300
Slowing down, speeding up, changing direction.
What is acceleration?
300
When a tennis racket strokes a tennis ball; when stepping from a curb; when rowing a boat - All of these are examples of one of Newton's Laws.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
300
One is speed at a specific point in time. The other is speed over a period of time.
What is instantaneous speed and average speed?
300
Force that keeps an object moving in a circle.
What is centripetal force?
300
s = d/t is the equation for this vocabulary word.
What is speed.
400
Hydraulic systems are based on this principle.
What is Pascal's Principle?
400
Using a=F/m: A car with a mass of 1000 kg accelerates when the traffic light turns green. If the net force is 4000 N, what is the cars's acceleration?
What is 4 m/s^2?
400
One is the force between neutrons, protons, and electrons. The other is just between protons and neutrons.
What is weak nuclear force and strong nuclear force?
400
Gravity and air resistance act on an object that is doing this.
What is free fall?
400
A = v/t. Using words, this is how I would say that.
What is acceleration equals velocity divided by time.
500
The path of motion of a thrown javelin is an example of this.
What is projectile motion?
500
Acceleration of an object equation. Also, known as Newton's Second Law of Motion.
What is A = F/M
500
One is how fast something is going and direction. The other is just how fast something is going.
What is velocity and speed?
500
This force occurs when an object is suspended in a fluid.
What is buoyant force?
500
Acceleration is the slope of this graph.
What is distance - time graph?
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