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An object's place or location used to determined movement |
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A change in the direction or speed of a object |
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How hard it is to slow down or stop a moving object |
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The property of matter that keeps it moving or keeps it at rest |
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The path one body in space takes as it revloves around another body |
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Law of universal gravitation |
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States that all objects are attracted to all other objects |
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Your favorite teddy bear is sitting on your bed when you leave in the morning? What would you expect to find when you return home?
- The teddy bear would stay on the bend based on Law 1
- The teddy bear would fall off of the bed based on Law 1
- Due to the teddy bear's mass, it will not accelerate based on Law 2
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The teddy bear woul stay on the bed based Law 1 |
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Why do the brakes on an adult bicycle have to be strong than the brakes on a child's bicycle.
- The adult's height creates less interia
- The childes sits lower to the ground
- The adult's mass creates more momentum
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The adult's mass creates more momentum |
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Why is a train that is traveling on a curved track a constant speed accelerating
- The direction of the train is constantly changing
- The train's size will eventually slow it down
- The train doesn't have enough momentum
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The direction of the train is a constantly changing |
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A student rolls a toy car across a table. The car rolls for a short distance and stops. The student thinks the car does no follow Newton's first law of motion because it stopped on it's own. What is the error in this student's thinking?
- He used the wrong kind of toy car
- He forgot about the force of friction
- He did not measure the correct forces
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He forgot about the force of friction |
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If an equal force acts on each of the following objects, which one will have the greatest acceleration.
- a 1-pound golf ball
- a 3-pound baseball
- a 10-pound bowling ball
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A baseball and a bowling ball roll along a flat surface at the same speed.Which statement about the motion of the balls is NOT true
- Friction is the same on each ball
- Gravity acts on each ball
- The balls have the same momentum
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The balls have the same momentum |
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What forces are acting on the parachutist?
- Momentum and Gravity
- Friction and Gravity
- Kinetic and potential
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Which example illustrates the property of inertia?
- People in a car contiue moving forward in their seats when the car quickly stops
- A bowling pin falls down when the bowling ball hits it
- The ground pushes back against your feet when you start to run
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People in a car continue moving forward in their seats when the car quickly stops |
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Which example is a illustration of the conservation of momentum
- a spacecraft traveling in space for thousands of years
- a ball thrown into air and then falling back towards Earth
- a parked truck rolls forward when a moving car hits it
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a parked truck rolls forward when a moving car hits it |
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