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Forces and Motion
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reference Point | The starting point you choose to describe the location, or position, of an object |
| Position | An object's distance and direction from a reference point |
| Motion | The process of changed position |
| Vector | Its a number that has a rate that has magnitude and direction |
| Speed | Its a measurement of distance of an object in movement |
| Rapidez | Its the speed and direction of an object |
| Desplazamiento | Its the difference between position, initial and the final position |
| Acceleration | Is a measure of the change in velocity during a period of time |
| Force | Is a push or a pull on an object |
| Contact Force | Is a push or a pull on one object by another object that is touching it |
| Newton's second law of motion | States that the acceleration of an object equals the net force on the object divided by the object's 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 sun of all the forces acting on an object |
| Newton's 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 |