Physics vocabulary

Acceleration

• The rate of change in velocity often means slowing down, speeding up, or changing its direction

Air resistance

• The friction between air and objects passing though the air.

Balanced forces

• Forces are equal but in different directions.

Force

• Force is measured in newtons and is a push or pull.

friction

• When two or more abjects touch cause an item to slow down or come to a stop.

Gravitational potential energy

• Energy an objec has because of how it is placed in a gravitational field.

Gravity

• A force on every item that has mass the more mass the greater the gravity between the object

Inertia

• The tendency for an item to resist motion

kinetic energy

• energy in movement.

newton's                 laws

newtons first law inertia

• an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion until an unbalanced force acts on it.

newtons 2nd law

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