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Vocabulary
Types of Forces
Formulas
Units of Measure
Miscellaneous
100
A push or pull on an object.
What is a force?
100
The force of air pushing against a moving object.
What is air resistance?
100
Distance divided by time.
What is speed?
100
The SI unit of length.
What is a meter?
100
The average speed for a man who drives 40 kilometers in 4 hours.
What is 10 km/h?
200
Speed and direction.
What is velocity?
200
The force that pulls objects to Earth?
What is gravity?
200
Rise over run.
What is slope?
200
Meters per second squared.
What is the Newton?
200
An object exerts force on another object, then the second object a force of equal strength in the opposite direction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
300
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is instantaneous speed?
300
Two forces of equal magnitude and in opposite directions.
What is a balanced force?
300
Mass times acceleration.
What is net force?
300
Kilometers per hour.
What is speed?
300
Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass.
What is Newton's Second Law of Motion?
400
Place or object used for comparison to tell if something is in motion.
What is a reference point?
400
The force that one surface exerts on another when the two rub together.
What friction?
400
Mass times velocity.
What is momentum.
400
One joule of work done in one second.
What is a watt?
400
The product of an object's mass and velocity.
What is momentum?
500
The tendency of an object to resist change in its motion.
What is inertia?
500
Any force that makes an object move in circles
What is centripetal force?
500
Final speed minus initial speed divided by time.
What is acceleration?
500
The SI unit of force.
What is a Newton?
500
The law of inertia.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?