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Kinetic/Potential energy
Motion and Speed
Acceleration
Forces
Gravity and Motion
100
The ability to cause change.
What is Energy?
100
Describes the location of an object
What is position
100
rate at which velocity changes
What is acceleration
100
push or pull
What is force
100
force of attraction between two objects due to their mass.
What is gravity
200
Energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy
200
Location to which you compare other locations
What is reference point
200
acceleration in a circular motion
What is centripetal acceleration
200
unit that measures force
What is a newton
200
Mass and distance determines
What is gravitational force
300
Stored energy
What is potential energy?
300
A measure of how far something moves
What is speed
300
acceleration in one direction
What is increase in speed
300
Force that holds things to the Earth's surface
What is gravity
300
Gravity is a result of _____
What is mass
400
Energy that can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed.
What is law of conservation of energy
400
A quantity that has both size and direction
What is vector
400
acceleration in the opposite direction
What is decrease in speed
400
combination of all the forces acting on an object
What is net force
400
An astronaut is weightless on the moon because _________
What is: gravity and mass of the moon is less than that on Earth.
500
kinetic energy plus the potential energy due to position
What is mechanical energy
500
speed in a specific direction
What is velocity
500
speed does not change but direction does
What is centripetal acceleration
500
balanced forces produce __________
What is net force of 0
500
When gravity is pulling it down and no other forces are acting on it.
What is free fall.