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Force and Motion

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force   a push or pull that acts on an object  
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position   the placement of an object or person  
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speed   how fast the position of an object changes with time at any given moment  
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acceleration   a change in speed; going faster  
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deceleration   when a force causes the speed of an object to decrease or slow down  
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incline   a ramp or slope  
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pendulum   something hanging from a fixed point that swings due to gravity and then out due to inertia  
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motion   the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement  
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inertia   the tendency of an object to resist a change in its state of motion  
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friction   a force that opposes the motion of one object moving past another  
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Newton's First Law of Motion   “An object at rest tends to stay at rest; an object in motion tends to stay in motion.”  
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velocity   the speed of a moving object taken together with its direction of travel  
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gravity   a force which tries to pull two objects toward each other  
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