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Forces & Motion
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Displacement | The difference between the starting(initial) 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 pull on an object |
| Contact force | A push or pull on one object by another object that is touching it. |
| Newton's 2nd law | 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. |
| Friction | A contact 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 the forces acting on an object |
| Newton's first law | An object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion unless a force acts on the object |