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Rocket Vocabulary
Study For Test On 3/31/14
Question | Answer |
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The product of an objects mass and velocity | Momentum |
The tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion | Inertia |
A Measure of how much matter Is in an object | Mass |
The motion of a falling object when the only force acting on it is gravity | Free Fall |
Equal forces acting on an object in the opposite direction | Balanced Forces |
Friction that occurs as an object moves through a fluid | Fluid Friction |
A push or pull exerted on an object | Force |
The force that pulls objects toward each other | Gravity |
The force that one surface exerts on another when 2 surfaces rub against each other | Friction |
The rule that in the absence of outside forces, The total momentum of objects that interact does not change | Law of Conservation of Momentum |
A measure of the forces of gravity on an object | Weight |
Forces that produce a nonzeronet force, which changes an objects motion. | Unbalanced Forces |
The fluid friction experimented by objects falling through the air | Air Resistance |
An Object That Is Thrown | Projectile |
The SI Unit of Measurement | Newton |
The Overall force on an object when all the individual forces acting on it are added together | Net Force |
The greatest velocity a falling object can achieve | Terminal Velocity |