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Vocabulary & Questions

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Reference point   a place that tells where you are; used to compare motion  
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Distance   the amount of space between two points.  
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Displacement   the distance between the final and starting position  
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Motion   the process of changing position  
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Speed   describes how fast something is moving (s= d/t)  
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Velocity   the speed of an object in a particular direction  
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Acceleration   the change in velocity divided by the time it takes to occur  
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Inertia   measures an object’s tendency to resist changing its motion. The more inertia an object has, the harder it is to start the object moving or to slow it down. Inertia depends on the amount of matter in an object, or its mass.  
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Friction   is a contact force that resists motion between two touching surfaces  
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Air resistance   a frictional force between air and objects moving through it  
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Gravity   is the pull that all matter exerts on other matter  
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Weight   is the force of gravity on an object on the planet or moon where the object is. Weight is a force and is measured in Newton's  
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Mass   is the amount of matter in an object  
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Force   a push or pull on an object  
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Contact force   a push/pull that one object applies to another object that is touching it.  
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Non-contact force   a force that one object applies to another object without touching it.  
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Balanced Force   forces that cancel each other out. If the forces acting on something are balanced its motion doesn’t change.  
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Unbalanced Forces   cause motion and change  
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Newton's First Law of Motion-   an object will remain at rest, or keep moving in a straight line with constant speed, unless an unbalanced force acts on it. Newton’s first law of motion means that an object can speed up, slow down or change direction only if a force acts on it.  
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Newton's Second Law of Motion   an unbalanced force acting on an object causes the object to accelerate in the direction of the force.  
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Newtons Third Law of Motion-   when a force is applied on an object, an equal force is applied by the object in the opposite direction.  
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Speed =   distance / time  
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Average speed =   the total distance traveled divided by the total time it took.  
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You are riding your bike for 15 km. It takes you half of an hour to complete the ride. What is your avenge speed? (s= d/t)   0.5 km/min  
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I drove 52 km north then turned west and drove 44 km. What is my total distance traveled?     96 km  
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Name one time that you would have a large displacement and one time you would have a displacement of 0 meters.   large displacement: sprinting no displacement: standing  
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Calculate the speed of a truck that traveled 455 miles in 6 hours?   75.8 mi/hr (that guy is speeding)  
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An ant crawled 2 m in 90 seconds; what was his speed?   0.02 m/sec 2.22 cm/sec  
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James ran the 200m dash in 25.4; what was his speed?   7.87 m/sec  
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A triathlete completed the Ironman Triathlon in 7 hours, 37 minutes. What was his/her average speed over the total distance? Ironman Triathlon: 2.4-mile (3.86 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.25 km) bicycle ride and a marathon 26.22-mile (42.20 km) run   18.43 mi/hr  
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In the beginning of my trip I have a velocity of 12 km/h east and in the end of my trip I had a velocity of 42 km/h east. The change in velocity took a hour and a half to occur. What is my acceleration? (a=Δv/t)   0.33 mi/m or 19.8 mi/h  
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What does a horizontal line represent on a distance-time graph?   Constant Speed  
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What does a diagonal line rising steeply represent on a distance-time graph?   Fast movement  
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What does a diagonal line going back to zero represent on a distance-time graph?   Going back to start  
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On which axis is time placed on a distance-time graph?   X-axis  
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On which axis is distance placed on a distance-time graph?   Y-axis  
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Mechanical Advantage =   output force/input force  
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Inclined plane   flat, sloped surface  
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Pulley   grooved wheel with a rope or a cable wrapped around it.  
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Fixed Pulley   can only change the direction of the force  
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Movable Pulley   a pulley attached to the object being lifted. Decreases the force needed to lift an object but the distance over which the force acts is greater.  
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Mechanical advantage of Pulleys =   number of sections of rope pulling up the object  
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what are the 2 families of simple machine?   The inclined plane family -The lever family  
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list all the simple machines in the inclined plane family   inclined plane, wedge, screw  
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list all the simple machines in the lever family   Lever, wheel and axle, and pulley  
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Lever   a stiff bar that balances or turns on a fulcrum  
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Wheel and axle   something that reduces the friction of moving something  
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pulley   something that uses a rope and can change the direction of a force  
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inclined plane   a slanting surface where one end is higher than the other  
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screw   an inclined plane wrapped around a pole  
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wedge   something that can split an object apart  
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tweezers   is a lever  
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seesaw   is a lever  
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ax   a wedge  
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needle   a wedge  
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flagpole   a pulley  
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knife   wedge  
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doorknob   lever  
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wagon   wheel and axle and lever  
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scissors   wedge and lever  
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hammer   a lever  
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slide   a inclined plane  
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swing set   a pulley  
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Newton's first law   an object moving at a constant velocity keeps moving at that velocity unless a net force acts on it  
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Elastic potential energy   is energy, attained from a stretch or compressed object  
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Acceleration   the rate of change of velocity  
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Velocity   describes both speed and direction of an object  
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Speed   only indicates how fast something is moving  
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average speed   the total distance traveled divided by the total time of travel  
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Constant speed   the speed that does not vary or change  
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Speed   the rate of change in position  
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Energy   the ability to do work  
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Kinetic Energy   energy in motion  
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Potential Energy   depends on the object height, and mass  
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Force   a push or pull one body exerts on another  
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Balanced forces   force on an object that are equal in size and opposite in direction  
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Net force   on an object always changes the velocity of an object  
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Inertia   the tendency of an object to resist any change in motion  
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Friction   the force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are touching each other  
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Gravity   a force every object in the universe exerts a force on every other object  
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Weight   the measure of the force of gravity  
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Newton   the unit to describe the force exerted by weight  
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Power   work/time  
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newtons second law   a net force acting acting on object causes the object to accelerate in the direction of the force  
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Newtons second law   can be expressed using the following equation Force = Mass * Acceleration (F=MA)  
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gravity causes all falling object to accelerate to the ground at the same rate of   9.8m/s2  
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Air resistance   the force air exerts on a moving object, this force acts in the opposite direction to that of an object motion  
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terminal velocity   the highest velocity that will be reached by a falling object  
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Newtons third law   to every action force there is an equal and opposite reaction force  
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work   exerting a force over a distance  
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work =   force * distance  
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Power is the rate (or how fast)work can be done   is the rate (or how fast)work can be done  
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Power=   = work/time  
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