Vocabulary
An object in motion (or at rest) will tend to stay in motion (or rest) until it is acted upon by an outside force.
What is Newton's First Law?
_______ ________ ________ was interested in learnign about how the world worked and he devoted his life to performing experiments designed to help him understand creation.
This egg continued to spin after we placed a finger on it and tried to stop it.
What is the raw egg?
The time rate of change of an object's velocity.
What is acceleration?
A force that results from surfaces rubbing against one another.
What is friction?
What is inertia?
When we pulled the index card out quickly, this fell into the jar.
What is the coin?
What is free fall?
The friction experienced by objects traveling through the air.
What is air resistance?
When you skip a rock across the ground, it eventually comes to a stop because of _______.
What is friction?
The ball rolled in a different direction off the pie pan because this changed.
What is velocity?
How quickly motion occurs.
What is speed.
A push or pull exerted on an object in an effort to change the object's velocity.
What is force?
_______ _______ are located in your ears and they are full of fluid that can slosh around inside them. When the fluid sloshes around it sends a signal to your brain to help you keep your balance.
What are semicircular canals?
In the friction experiment, this pulled the objects down.
What is gravity?
The acceleration due to gravity for any object.
What is 9.8 meters/second2.
The standard unit of force defined as kg-m
sec2.
What is the Newton?
Once motion begins, friction opposes the ______ and eventually causes it to stop.
What is motion?
In Newton's Third Law experiment, when the gas became pressurized, it pushed the bottle and the stopper in _______ directions.
What is opposite?
A rock formed when chemical reactions cement sediments together, hardening them.
What is sedimentary rock?