VOCAB
A mathematical representation of the location of an object
What is position?
Another name for Newton's 1st Law of Motion.
What is the Law of Inertia?
The length of a path that an object travels.
What is Distance?
He invented the Laws of Motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The other law that Isaac Newton is famous for inventing.
What is The Law of Universal Gravitation?
The rate of change of the length of an object’s path.
What is speed?
The force that causes a balanced object to move.
What is an unbalanced force?
The orientation of a frame of reference
What is direction?
An object that is at rest, will remain at rest and an object that is in motion will stay in motion until an unbalanced force act upon it.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
A quantity that only requires a magnitude.
What is a scalar quantity?
The change in the position of an object over time.
What is motion?
Final point - initial point
What is the formula for displacement?
A change in the position of an object.
What is displacement?
Sum of total miles/kilometers/feet/etc. traveled
What is the formula for distance?
A quantity that requires both magnitude and direction.
What is a vector quantity?
Enables objects to change or to make changes in other objects.
What is energy?
A force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are in contact.
What is friction?
An influence that can change an object’s properties
What is force?
An object that is not moving.
What is balanced?
The name of Mrs. Harris's cat
What is Astro?
The rate of change of an object’s velocity.
What is acceleration?
The more of it you have, the more inertia you have. The less of it you have, the less inertia you have.
What is mass?
The rate at which an object’s position is changing.
What is velocity?
The tendency of an object to resist any changes in motion.
What is inertia?
The boy band from That's So Raven.
What is the Boyz n' Motion?