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PS Module 1
Forces and Motion
Question | Answer |
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Reference point | The starting point you choose to describe the location or position of an object |
Position | An objects distance and direction from a reference point |
Motion | The process of changing position |
Displacement | The difference between the initial, or starting, position, and the final position |
Speed | A measure of the distance, an object travels in a given amount of time |
Velocity | The speed and direction of a moving object |
Vector | A quantity that has both magnitude and direction |
Acceleration | A measure of the change in velocity during a period of time |
Force | A push, or a pull on an object |
Newtons second law of motion | States that the acceleration of an object equals the net force on the object divided by the objects mass |
Friction | A force that resists the sliding motion of two surfaces that are touching |
Free body diagram | A simple model to understand systems of objects with any amount of applied forces |
Net force | The sum of all the forces acting on an object |
Newtons first law of motion | States that an object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest, unless acted on by a force |
Newtons third law of motion | States that when an object applies a force on another object, the second object applies a force of the same strength on the first object, but the force is in the opposite direction |
Force pair | The force is two objects apply to each other |
Normal force | The force that pushes perpendicular to the object surface |
Elastic collision | When colliding objects bounce off each other |
Noncontact force | A force that one object can apply to another object without touching it |
Gravity | And attractive force that exist between all objects that have mass |
Field | A region of space that has a physical quantity, such as a Force, at every point |
Weight | Are the gravitational force exerted on an object |
Contact force | A push, or a pull on one object by another object that is touching it |