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chpt 11 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Frame of reference | A set of coordinate axes in terms of which position or movement may be specified or with reference to which physical laws may be mathematically stated |
| relative motion | The continuous change of position of a body with respect to a second body or to a reference point that is fixed. |
| distance | the length along a straight line or curve |
| vector | quantity having both magnitude and direction; it may be represented by a directed line segment. |
| resultant factor | the result following by an action or a consequence. |
| speed | the swiftness of how fast something is going. |
| average speed | the total distance traveled. |
| instantaneous speed | distance traveled divide by the the time traveled. |
| velocity | A vector quantity whose magnitude is a body's speed and whose direction is the body's direction of motion. |
| acceleration | the act of speeding up or going faster. |
| free fall | The ideal falling motion of a body that is subject only to the earth's gravitational field. |
| constant acceleration | the force, as a vector, is equal to the product of the mass of the object being accelerated |
| linear graph | that converts a quantity to another quantity |
| nonlinear graph | One of the greatest difficulties of nonlinear problems is that it is not generally possible to combine known solutions into new solutions. |
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