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Stack #4628590
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| intertia | an object's ability to resist any change in motion |
| Acceleration | A measure of the change in velocity during a period of time. |
| Contact force | A force or a pull on one object by another object that is touching it. |
| Newtons 1st 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. |
| Newtons 2nd 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. |
| Newtons 3rd 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. |
| Force | A push or pull on an object |
| Net-Force | The combination of all the forces acting on an object. |
| Motion | The process of changing position. |
| Displacement | The difference between initial, or starting, position and the final position. |
| Speed | A measure of the distance an object travels in a given amount of time. |
| Velocity | The speed and the direction of a moving object. |
| Vector | A quantity that has both magnitude and direction |
| 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. |
| Force pair | The forces two objects apply to each other. |
| Normal force | The force that pushes perpendicular to the objects surface. |
| Elastic collision | When colliding objects bounce off each other. |
| Inelastic collision | When colliding objects stick together. |
| 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. |
| Non-contact | A force that one object can apply to another object without touching it. |
| Weight | The gravitational force exerted on an object. |