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Physics Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Force | a push or pull |
Friction | the transfer of kinetic energy from a moving body to the atoms of matter around it |
Gravity | the pull resulting from the mass of the Earth |
Heat | the average speed of the atoms that make up a object |
Galileo | Italian astronomer and physicist who studied and created the term inertia |
Inertia | Describes the law of physics that states that a stopped object tends to stay stopped and a moving object tends to maintain its direction and speed |
Machanics | energy in motion |
Mechanic | the physics of motion |
Sir Isaac Newton | Created Newton's Laws-used mathematics to develop theories for providing an understanding of physics and astronomy |
Potential energy | energy stored by the position of an object |
Transformation of energy | the law of physics that states that energy can be changed from one form to another |