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Forces
Motion
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Vocabulary
Formula
100
the sum of all the forces acting on an object
What is net force?
100
a measure of how far an object has moved
What is distance?
100
scientist who came up with the 3 Laws of Motion
Who is Newton?
100
Acceleration of an object that is increasing
What is positive acceleration?
100
what the i stands for with velocity
What is initial?
200
a push or pull exerted on an object
What is a force?
200
the distance and direction an object moves from its starting point
What is displacement?
200
the tendency of an object to resist change in its motion
What is inertia?
200
Acceleration of an object slowing down
What is negative acceleration?
200
what the f stands for with velocity
What is final?
300
unequal forces pushing in opposite directions
What is unbalanced forces?
300
the speed of an accelerating object
What is changing?
300
the rate of change of an object's position
What is speed?
300
the amount of matter in an object
What is mass?
300
meters per seconds squared would be the units
What is acceleration?
400
the net force acting on an object is zero
What is balanced forces?
400
the speed of an object and the direction of its motion
What is velocity?
400
the rate of change in position at a given point in time
What is instantaneous speed?
400
rate of change of the velocity of an object
What is acceleration?
400
mph would be a unit
What is speed?
500
measure of the force of gravity on an object
What is weight?
500
the total distance an object travels divided by the time of travel
What is average speed?
500
a graph with distance on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis
What is a distance-time graph?
500
speed of an object that is neither speeding up nor slowing down
What is constant?
500
will increase when an object's mass increases
What is inertia?