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Law of Motion
Ch 7 Les 4
Term | Definition |
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force | a push or a pull |
friction | a force that opposes motion and that occurs when things slide or roll over each other |
inertia | the tendency of an object to resist changes in its motion |
acceleration | the rate at which velocity is changing |
deceleration | the rate of slow down |
velocity | speed and direction |
constant speed | speed that does not change |
varying speed | speed that changes |
1st law | object at rest remains at rest, object in motion remains in motion |
2nd Law | mass and force |
3rd Law | action, reaction |
gravity | the force of attraction between any two objects that have mass |
law of universal gravitation | gravitational force depends on the mass of the two objects involved and on the distance between them |