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Motion and Momentum
Term | Definition |
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Acceleration | The change in velocity divided by the time it takes for the change to occur. |
Average speed | Dividing the total distance traveled by the time taken. |
Displacement | The direction and difference in position between your starting and ending points. |
Inertia | Tendency of an object to resist a change in it's motion. |
Instantaneous Speed | The speed of an object at one instant in time. |
Law of conservation of momentum | The total momentum of objects that collide is the same before and after he collision. |
Mass | Amount of matter in an object. |
Momentum | A measure of how hard it is stop the object. |
Speed | The distance traveled by he line taken to travel that distance. |
Velocity | The speed of an object and direction of it's motion. |