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Forces and Motion
| 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 2 Law | law that states that the acceleration of an object is equal to the next force exerted on the object divided by the object's mass |
| 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 due to a force |
| Net force | the combination of al the forces acting on an object |
| Inertia | an object's ability to resist any change in motion |
| Newton's 1 Law | an object at rest will sat at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion unless a force acts on the object |
| Newton's 3 Law | when an object applies a force on another object, The second object applies the same strength on the first object |
| Force Pair | Forces two objects apply to each other |
| Normal Force | Force that pushes perpendicular to the objects surface |
| Elastic Collision | when an object collides and sticks together |
| Inelastic Collision | a collision where kinetic energy is not conserved |
| Non-contact force | A force that one object can apply to another object without touching it |
| Gravity | an attractive force that exists between all objects that have mass |
| Field | a region of space that has a physical quantity at every point |
| Weight | The gravitational force exerted on an object |
| 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 |
| Displacement | the difference between the initial, or starting position and final position |
| Speed | a measure of the distance an object travels in a given amount of time |
| Motion | the process of changing position |
| Velocity | the speed and direction of a moving object |
| Vector | a quantity that has both magnitude and direction |