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Term | Definition |
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acceleration | an increase in the rate or speed of something. |
average speed | equals the total distance traveled divided by the total time taken to travel the distance. |
displacement | the moving of something from its place or position. |
inertia | a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged. |
instantaneous speed | the speed of an object at one instant of time. |
law of conservation of momentum | states that the total momentum of objects that collide with each other is the same before and after the collision. |
mass | amount of matter in an object. |
momentum | a measure of how difficult it is to stop a moving object;equals the product of mass and velocity. |
speed | equals the distance traveled divided by the time it takes to travel that distance. |
velocity | the speed of something in a given direction. |