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Physics Vocab

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Force   a push or pull  
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Friction   the transfer of kinetic energy from a moving body to the atoms of matter around it  
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Gravity   the pull resulting from the mass of the Earth  
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Heat   the average speed of the atoms that make up a object  
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Galileo   Italian astronomer and physicist who studied and created the term inertia  
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Inertia   Describes the law of physics that states that a stopped object tends to stay stopped and a moving object tends to maintain its direction and speed  
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Machanics   energy in motion  
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Mechanic   the physics of motion  
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Sir Isaac Newton   Created Newton's Laws-used mathematics to develop theories for providing an understanding of physics and astronomy  
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Potential energy   energy stored by the position of an object  
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Transformation of energy   the law of physics that states that energy can be changed from one form to another  
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