Force
Motion
Vocabulary
Examples
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What is required to change the velocity of an object?

Force

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If two soccer balls are at rest and then kicked, ball A moves 2 meters from its original spot and the ball B moves 4 meters from its original spot, which one received more force?

Ball B (4 meters)

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A push or pull that can cause motion

Force

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To start an object moving, the force must come from this direction:

any direction

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What number of Newton's Law does this describe:

An object at rest stays at rest.
An object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction UNLESS acted upon by an unbalanced force.

Newton's First Law of Motion

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To stop an object, the force must come from this direction:

opposite

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It takes more force to slow down your bicycle by 5 mph than to speed it up 5 mph. True or False


False

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an increase in rate of change

acceleration

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A pod hits a space station. The space station is much more massive than the pod. The pod experiences a much stronger force than the station. True/False

False

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What number of Newton's Laws of Motion does this describe:

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Newton's Third Law

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To increase the speed of an object, the force must come from this direction:

the same direction 

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A pink canoe (200kg) and a green canoe (150kg) are crashed into from behind by giant rubber ducks. Both canoes increase their velocity by 3 km/sec.  Which ones received MORE force from their rubber duck?

The Pink Canoe

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Speed in a particular direction

Velocity

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A pod hits a space station. The space station is much more massive than the pod. The pod experiences a much greater change in velocity. True/False

True

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To push a more massive object farther and at the same speed as a lighter object, you have to ________ more force.

Exert

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the tendency of something to stay in rest or motion

inertia

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An object with less mass collides with an object with more mass. Which object will receive more force? 


Neither 

(both same amount of force)


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Anything that has mass and takes up space

Matter

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There is a collision between a bug and a car. The bug experiences a greater change in velocity because...

it has a smaller mass

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Who would require less force to move 10 tiles across the floor in a chair with wheels: Hulk or Tinker Bell?

Tinker Bell