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Term | Definition |
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Conservation of Energy | The law of physics that states that energy can be changed, but not lost or destroyed. |
Force | A push or a pull. |
Gravity | The pull resulting from the mass of the Earth. |
Galileo | Italian astronomer and physicist who studied and created the term inertia. |
Inertia | The word used to describe the law of physics that states that a stopped object tends to stay stopped, and a moving object tends to maintain its direction in speed. |
Friction | The transfer of kinetic energy. from a moving body, to the atoms of matter around it. |
Kinetic Energy | Energy in motion. |
Potential Energy | Energy stored by the position of an object. |
Mechanics | The physics of motion. |
Sir Isaac Newton | Used the mathematics to develop theories that provide building blocks to understand both physics and astronomy. |
Transformation of energy | The law of physics that states that energy can be changed from one form to another. |
Heat |