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The Laws
Types of Forces
Key Terms
Name that Law!
Scientists and things
100
F=ma
What is the 2nd law?
100
A push or a pull
What is a force?
100
How much matter makes up an object
What is mass?
100
Pushing harder on a merry-go-round to make it spin faster.
What is the 2nd law?
100
The four elements that the ancient Greeks (Aristotle) believed made up everything.
What are earth, air, fire, and water?
200
The law of action and reaction
What is the 3rd law?
200
A force that slows down moving objects
What is friction?
200
The sum of all the forces
What is net force?
200
A ball rolling along the floor stops.
What is the 1st law?
200
The unit for force
What are Newtons?
300
Another name for the the 1st Law
What is Law of Inertia?
300
Types of forces that can change an object's motion
What are unbalanced forces?
300
An object's tendency to resist a change in motion
What is inertia?
300
While wearing rollerblades, Zeke throws a ball and then rolls backwards.
What is the 3rd law?
300
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and alchemist that described the three laws of motion
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
400
An object in motion stays in motion and an object at rest stays at rest unless ...
What happens unless acted upon by an unbalanced force?
400
The force that attracts all objects to each other
What is gravity?
400
Speeding up, slowing down, and changing direction
What are examples of acceleration?
400
The reason we should wear seat belts
What is the 1st law?
400
Greek Philosopher that had some funny ideas about how objects move. For example, heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones.
Who is Aristotle?
500
This depends on how much force you apply and how much mass an object has
What is acceleration?
500
When all the forces acting on an object cancel each other out (the object is either at rest OR moving at a constant velocity)
What is ZERO net force?
500
It has magnitude and direction.
What is a vector?
500
If the action force is that Donald Duck pushes the car, then the reaction force is ...
What is the car pushes Donald Duck?
500
Disproved some of Aristotle's ideas with his own experiments and was born before Newton.
Who is Galileo Galilei?