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Motion Vocabulary
Newtons Laws of Motion
Speed and Velocity
Acceleration
Forces
100

A force applied to an object that causes it to move in the same direction as the force being applied.

What is work?

100

Newtons ______ Law of Motion is referred to the Law of Inertia.

  • A tendency to do motion and remain unchanged
  • An object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force

What is Newtons 1st Law?

100

What is the main difference between Speed and Velocity?

What is Velocity needs a direction?

100
Acceleration is described as changes in ________, changes in ___________, or both.
What are speed and direction?
100

In which direction will 2 dogs most likely move if one is pulling 175N West and the other is pulling 200 N East?

  • East
  • West
  • North
  • South

What is East?

200
The speed at which an object is traveling and the direction it is traveling.
What is velocity?
200

Which Newton's Law of Motion is this?

A speed skater goes faster around as they push harder with their legs.

What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?

200

What is the speed of a train car if its distance indicates that it traveled 200 meters in 25 seconds.

What is 8 meters per second?

200

What is the acceleration of a bus moving at a speed of 50 miles per hour for 3 hours.

What is 16.7m/s^2?

200

Which change would require more force to pull a wooden block up the ramp?

  • Have the student use two hands.
  • Reduce the mass of the wooden block.
  • Restack the books so the thinnest book is on the bottom.
  • Glue sandpaper to the surface of the ramp.

What is glue sandpaper to the surface of the ramp?

300

The rate at which an object is moving at a given time.

What is speed?

300

Newton's ______ Law:

  • Law of Force and Acceleration
  • Force=Mass X Acceleration

What is a Newton's Second Law of Motion?

300

Which measurements are required to calculate the average speed of a car driving on a road?

  • Time and distance
  • Time and direction
  • Mass and distance
  • Mass and direction

Time and Distance

300

The formula for calculating acceleration.

What is the a=s/t

a=vf-vi/t

300

The force of an object, with a certain mass accelerating at a certain rate, can be determined by using the equation below.

F=M X A

Which object would have the greatest force?

  • A 5-kg object accelerating at 10 m/s2
  • A 5-kg object accelerating at 20 m/s2
  • A 20-kg object accelerating at 4 m/s2
  • A 20-kg object accelerating at 3 m/s2

What is moving at a 5-kg object accelerating at 20 m/s2?

400

The change in position over time

What is motion?

400

Which Newton's Law of Motion is this?

A soccer ball accelerates faster when the same amount of force is applied.

What is Newton's 2nd Law of Motion?

400

A baseball is thrown a distance of 60 feet in 0.5 seconds. What is the speed of the baseball?

What is 120ft/s?

400
The acceleration of a car traveling at 10 meters per second that takes 20 seconds to stop.
What is 0.5 meters per second squared?
400

The gravitational force between two objects depends on the distance between the objects and each object's _________.

  • Mass
  • Volume
  • Pressure
  • Temperature

What is Mass?

500
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is acceleration?
500

Newton's ______ Law of Motion:

  • Law of Action/Reaction
  • For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?

500

A truck driver is travelling North towards New York at 60mph. He is travelling 100 miles. How long will it take the driver to get to New York. 

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1.7 hours North

500
The acceleration of a race car that goes from a pace car speed of 400000 kilometers per second to full speed of 900000 kilometers per second in 10 seconds.
What is 50000 kilometers per second squared?
500

An object accelerates at 3 meters per second2 when a 10-newton (N) force is applied to it. Which force would cause this object to accelerate at 6 meters per second2?

  • 5 N
  • 10 N
  • 20 N
  • 30 N

What is 20N?