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KOTELPHYSMOD7VOCAB
PHYSICS MODULE 7 VOCABULARY
Question | Answer |
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the planets move in elliptical paths with the Sun at one focus | Kepler's First Law |
an imaginary line from the Sun to a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal time intervals | Kepler's Second Law |
the square of the ratio of the periods of any two planets is equal to the cube of the ratio of their average distances from the Sun | Kepler's Third Law |
attractive force between two objects that is directly proportional to the mass of the objects | gravitational force |
gravitational force between any two objects is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers | law of universal gravitation |
measure of an object’s resistance to any type of force | inertial mass |
quantity that measures an object’s response to gravitational force | gravitational mass |