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Motion & Forces
Unit 1 Lesson 1-4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Position | The location of an object |
| speed | the distance traveled divided by the time interval during which the motion occurred |
| reference point | a location to which another location is compared |
| vector | q quantity that has both size and direction |
| motion | an object's change in position relative to a reference point |
| velocity | the speed of an object in a particular direction |
| acceleration | the rate at which velocity changes over time; and object accelerates if its speed, direction, or both change |
| centripetal acceleration | the acceleration directed toward the center of a circular path |
| force | a push or pull exerted on an object in order change the motion of an object |
| inertia | the tendency of and object to resist a change of the object; force has size and direction |
| net force | the combination of all of the force acting on an object |
| gravity | a force of attention between objects that is due to their masses |
| free fall | the motion of a body when only the force of gravity is gravity is acting on the body |
| orbit | the path that a body follows as it travels around another body in space |