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Force and motion
Question | Answer |
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Acceleration | The act of increasing speed. |
Displacement | The act of moving something from its natural environment |
Speed | A rate of which something happens |
Mass | The property of a body that causes it to have weight |
Inertia | The tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest |
Average speed | total distance x total time |
Momentum | The product of a body's mass and its velocity |
Velocity | Distance traveled per unit time |
Newtons 3 Laws | The 3 laws |
Newtons 1st law | An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. |
Newtons 2nd law | The behavior of objects for which all existing forces are not balanced |
Newtons 3rd law | A force is a push or a pull that acts upon an object as a results of its interaction with another object. |