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Physics Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |