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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| reference point | The starting point you choose to describe the location, or position, of an object. |
| positions | an object's distance and direction from a reference point. |
| motion | the process of changing position. |
| displacements | the difference between the initial, or staring positions and the final position. |
| speed | a measure of the distance an object travels in a given amount of time. |
| velocity | the speed direction of a moving object. |
| vector | a quantity that has both magnitude and direction |
| acceleration | a measure of a change in velocity during a period of time |
| force | a push or a pull on an object |
| contract force | a push or pull on one object by another object that is touching it |
| Newton's second law of motion | law that states that the acceleration of an object is equal to the net force exerted on the object divided by the object's mass |
| friction | contract force that resists the sliding motion of two surfaces that are touching. |
| free-body diagram | a simple model to understand what will happen to an object due to a force. |
| net force | the combination of all time forces acting on an object |
| Newton's first law of motion | an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion unless a force acts on the object . |
| Newton's first law of motion | when an object applies a forces on another object the second objects applies a force of the same strength on the first object but the force is in the opposite direction |
| force pair | the force two objects apply to each other |
| normal force | the force that pushes perpendicular to the object's surface. |
| elastic collision | when colliding objects bounce off each other |
| non contact force | a force that one object applies to another without touching it |
| gravity | an attractive force that exists between all objects that have mass |
| field | a region of space that has he's a physical quantity (such as a force) at every point |
| weight | the gravitational force exerted on an object |