Vocabulary
This happens when two objects come into contact and apply forces to each other, often changing motion, shape or energy.
What is a collision?
When you push a door open, you are applying this kind of force.
What is a contact force?
This scientist is known for his three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Energy is transferred between the objects which results in a change in motion.
What causes a change in motion when two objects collide?
This is the force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravitational force?
This type of force occurs when two objects are in physical contact with each other.
What is contact force?
Thee amount of force or energy that causes an object to fracture or break apart
What is Breaking Point?
This force is measured in m/s,
What is velocity?
ALL objects, even a concrete beam, can change shape or bend when this is applied.
What is force?
This is the term for the rate at which an object changes its velocity.
What is acceleration?
This force opposes the motion of objects sliding past each other.
What is friction?
When you slide down a slide, this force opposes your motion.
What is friction?
This scientist, known for her work on radioactivity, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
An experiment that uses rubber bands, noodles, and a wooden stick to demonstrate this applied force.
What is elastic limit?
This is the term for a force that acts at a distance, without direct physical contact.
What is a non-contact force?
This type of force occurs when materials return to their original shape after being compressed or stretched.
What is elastic force?
When a basketball bounces, it's demonstrating this type of force.
What is elastic force?
Known for his work on electromagnetism and wireless communication, this inventor and engineer's last name is now a unit of magnetic field strength.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
Name the instrument used to measure force.
What is a spring scale?
This is the term for the amount of space an object occupies.
What is volume?
This is the unit used to measure force, named after a famous scientist.
What is a Newton?
In a game of tug of war, the winning team is the one that exerts a greater amount of this.
What is contact force?
When speed and mass increase, this also increases.
What is Kinetic Energy?
Describe an experiment to demonstrate the concept of the relationship between force and momentum.
What is the Egg Drop Challenge?
This is the principle stating that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?