Vocab Terms
The distance and direction of an object's change in position from the starting point.
What is displacement?
What is the sum of the forces that are acting on an object?
What is a net force that is directed toward the center of a curved or circular path?
What is known as centripetal force?
What is defined as the rate at which work is done?
What is the lowest point on a transverse wave?
What is a trough?
Average Speed
What is term for an object's tendency to resist a change in it's motion?
What is inertia?
What is known as the acceleration of an object toward the center of a curved or circular path?
What is centripetal acceleration?
What is the energy of motion?
What is Kinetic Energy?
What is the material through which a wave transfers energy?
What is the force of friction that opposes motion of one object sliding against another?
What is Friction.
What is an object that interact experience equal amount of force but in an opposite direction.
What is known as Newton's 2nd Law of Motion?
What is known as the attractive force between 2 objects that depends on the masses of the objects and the distance between them?
What is the energy stored by objects due to their position above Earth's surface?
What is gravitational potential energy?
What is the ability of two or more waves to combine and form a new wave?
What is interference?
What is the friction of a moving object?
What is Kinetic Friction
The acceleration of an object is in the same direction as the net force; the net force equals the mass times the acceleration?
Newton's 2nd Law of Motion
What is the gravitational force exerted on an object?
What is weight?
What simple machine consists of an inclined plane wrapped in a spiral around a cylindrical post?
Screw
What is the distance between one point in a wave and the nearest point just like it?
What is a wavelength.
What is the friction that opposes the motion of an object at rest?
What is static friction?
What is known as the force that opposes the motion of objects that move through the air?
What is air resistance?
The property of a moving object that equals its mass times its velocity?
What is momentum?
What simple machine has an inclined plane with one or two sloping sides?
What is the measure of the energy in a wave?
What is an amplitude?