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Motion
Question | Answer |
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Acceleration | increase in the rate or speed of something |
average speed | an object tells you the (average) rate at which it covers distance. |
inertia | A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged |
law of conservation of momentum | when some bodies constituting an isolated system act upon one another, the total momentum of the system remains constant |
Mass | A coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape. |
Momentum | : a property of a moving body that the body has by virtue of its mass and motion and that is equal to the product of the body's mass and velocity |
Speed | Rapidity of movement or action |
Velocity | The speed of something in a given direction |
instantaneous speed | In kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of its velocity |
Displacement | The moving of something from its place or position. |