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Ch. 3 vocab
vocabulary words
Question | Answer |
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The force that acts to resist the relative motion of objects or materials that are in contact. | friction |
The property of any body to resist changes in its state of motion. | Inertia |
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of motion in a straight line at constant speed, unless acted upon by a nonzero force. | Newton's first law |
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of motion in a straight line at constant speed, unless acted upon by a nonzero force. | law of inertia |
The SI unit of mass. The amount of mass in one liter of water at 4 degrees celsius. | kilograms |
a measure of an object's inertia or tha amount of matter in an object. Only depends on the amount of and kind of particles that compose an object not the location. | mass |
THe force on a body due to the gravitational attraction of another body. | weight |
The SI unit of force. The force applied to a one kilogram of particles that compose an atomic nucleus | newton |