Motion and Energy vocabulary
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| Motion | The state in which one’s object distance from another is changing
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| Reference point | A place or object used for comparison to describe the position or motion of a person or object
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| Distance | The length of a path between two points
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| Displacement | The length and direction of a straight line between starting and ending points
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| Scalar | A measurement that have magnitude, or size, only
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| Speed | rate at which someone or something is able to move or operate
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| Velocity | the speed of something in a given direction
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| Acceleration | increase in the rate of speed of an object
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| Vector | A measurable quantity that consists of both a magnitude and a direction
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| Energy | the ability to do work or cause change
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| Kinetic energy | the energy an object has from its motion
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| Potential energy | stored energy that results from the position or shape of an object
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| Gravitational energy | potential energy related to an object’s height
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| Elastic energy | potential energy of objects that can be stretched or compressed
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| Mechanical energy | a object’s combined kinetic energy and potential energy
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| Conservation of energy | a law that says when one form of energy is transformed to another, no energy is destroyed in the process
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| Work | done when an object is caused to move a certain distance
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