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Motion vocab
Vocabulary
| question | answer |
|---|---|
| Reference point | A start point you chose to describe the location |
| Position | A objects distance from a reference point |
| Motion | The process of changing positions |
| Displacement | The difference between a objects starting point to final point |
| Speed | The measure of an objects distance and travel |
| Velocity | The speed and direction of a moving object |
| Vector | The quantity that has both magnitude and direction |
| Acceleration | the measure of change in velocity during a period of time |
| Force | the push of pull on an object |
| Contact Force | the push of pull on one object by another object |
| Newton's 2nd Law | the acceleration of an object equals the net Force on an 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 force |
| Net Force | the sum of all forces acting on an object |
| Newton's First Law | states that an object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay rest unless acted on by a force |
| Inertia | An objects ability to resist any change in motion |