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Force Vocab Terms

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force   a push or a pull  
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friction   a force that resists motion between touching surfaces  
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gravity   the attractive force between objects  
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air resistance   the force of air pushing against an object  
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newton   the unit for force  
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spring scale   the tool for measuring force  
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Newton's 1st law   An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion unless acted on by a force  
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inertia   the tendency of an object to resist changes in motion  
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Newton's 2nd law   F=MxA If you apply more force to an object, it will accelerate more.  
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balanced forces   forces that are equal in size and opposite in direction  
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Newton's 3rd law   Every action force has an equal and opposite reaction force  
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action forces   The force you exert when you push on an object  
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reaction forces   The force that pushes back on you when you push on something  
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weight   Mass x gravity. Weight is a force!  
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momentum   Mass x velocity  
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