Contact Forces
The contact force that resists motion when surfaces are touching.
What is friction?
The non-contact force that holds us down onto the planet.
What is gravity?
The law of motion you would see when a rocket blasts off.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
Balanced or unbalanced? A person sitting in a chair.
What is balanced?
This measures how fast something is traveling AND tells the direction it is moving.
What is velocity?
The kind of contact force that would make a leaf flutter.
The non-contact force that would keep magnets stuck to a refrigerator door?
What is magnetic force?
Comparing an empty or a full shopping cart rolling across the parking lot is an example of this law of motion.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
Balanced or unbalanced? You kick a ball and it moves across the grass.
What is unbalanced?
These are the two factors that influence an object's momentum.
What is mass and velocity?
The contact force demonstrated when you stretch a rubber band out as much as possible.
What is tension?
The non-contact force that would cause you to potentially get shocked.
What is electrical force?
Newton's first law of motion is also known as the law of __________.
What is inertia?
Balanced or unbalanced? A ping pong ball hovering above a hair dryer.
What is balanced?
What is distance?
The contact force that is balanced, like placing a textbook on a desk.
What is normal force?
That non-contact force that holds particles in an atom together.
What is nuclear force?
Newton's third law of motion says: Each action force has an equal but ___________ reaction force.
What is opposite?
Balanced or unbalanced? A balloon letting all of its air out.
What is unbalanced?
The total distance an object moves from its starting point to its final location.
What is displacement?
What is fluid friction?
The difference between mass and weight has to do with __________.
What is gravity?
Newton's second law of motion involves these three things.
What are force, mass, and acceleration?
If there is motion, we know the forces are ___________.
What is unbalanced?
These are the three kinds of motion.
What is straight-line, spinning, and vibrating motion?