Motion
Forces
Newton's Laws
When math and science combine
Vocabulary
100
A place used to determine an object is in motion.
What is reference point?
100
A force is explained by this.
What is a push or a pull?
100
A basketball player pushes off the floor, the floor pushes on the player with this amount of force.
What is equal and opposite force?
100
A child runs into a brick wall if the child's mass is 78kg this is the acceleration of the child if he exerts 468N of force onto the wall.
What is 6m/s/s?
100
The combination of forces acting on an object.
What is net force?
200
A pencil falls from a desk; gravity causes this to occur.
What is acceleration?
200
Objects that are thrown and dropped at the same time also land at the same time because of this.
What is the acceleration due to gravity?
200
If a runner slows down from 10m/s to 6m/s in 2s, this would be his acceleration.
What is -2m/s/s?
200
Slugs produce slime to move on the ground. The slime reduces this.
What is sliding friction?
300
A baby crawls across the floor. The parents know the baby is moving because of this.
What is the fact that the baby changed positions?
300
These are the types of friction when a women strolls by a shoe store.
What is fluid friction and sliding friction?
300
When an object is at rest, then suddenly accelerates we can deduce this.
What is a contact force was applied?
300
A baby crane falls from its nest into the hungry alligator. This is the amount of force the crane exerts on the alligator if the crane weighs 2.3kg.
What is 22.6N of force?
300
A snowman's head falls off and changes its velocity. This is the cause.
What is an unbalanced force? (Gravity is fine)
400
A person is riding in a train, the person notices that all these trees are passing by. The reference point in this example would be this.
What are trees?
400
Newton proposed this law on gravity.
What is the Law of Universal Gravity?
400
f=ma
What is Newton's Second law of motion?
400
Sam and Alyssa are world famous dancers. During their stellar performance Alyssa starts from rest and reaches a max speed of 20m/s in 4 seconds and jumps into Sam's embracing arms. This is much force must Sam hold if Alyssa weighs 134kg
What is 670N?
400
An object that is thrown.
What is a projectile?
500
A skydiver falls from a plane accelerates due to gravity. When he reaches a constant speed he was reached this.
What is terminal velocity?
500
The Moons gravitational attraction to the Earth creates these on the Earth.
What are tides?
500
The Mind Eraser at Darien Lake must include a seat restraint because of this.
What is inertia?
500
This is the mass of Gary the snail if he exerts 25N of force onto the ground and he goes from a monumental speed of 0.03m/s to 0.05m/s in 3 seconds.
What is 3750kg?
500
This type of force produces heat.
What is friction?