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| Jared pushed Lisa’s book off of her desk. He applied a __________________ to the book |
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| When one object pushes or pulls by touching another object, the first object is applying a __________________ to the second object. |
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Which of the following are considered forces?
A. contact force
B. friction
C. gravity
D. all of the above |
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| With this type of force, motion does not change. |
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| This type of force will cause the motion of an object to change. |
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| Force = mass x acceleration is a formula used to support which of Newton’s Laws? |
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| A soccer ball sits still on the ground until the player kicks it. It remains still, Newton would say, because of its _______________________. |
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| Cameron rolled a tennis ball and a bowling ball with the exact same force. The bowling ball didn’t roll quite as far. Cameron just demonstrated which of Newton’s Laws? |
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| D. is in the same direction of the force. |
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Newton’s 2nd Law states that the acceleration of an object
A. is in the opposite direction of the force.
B. is at a right angle to the force.
C. causes the object to slow. D. is in the same direction of the force. |
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| Any force that keeps an object moving in a circle is ____________________ force. |
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| Centripital force always points to the ______________ of the circle. |
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| I went downstairs in the dark last night to get a glass of milk from the refrigerator. I banged my toe on the leg of the dining room table and screamed in pain. This is an example of which of Newton’s Laws? |
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| The sledgehammer bouncing back. |
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| A railroad worker is pounding a spike into the track. As he hits the spike, the sledgehammer bounces back up. The reaction force in this example is |
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| The nautilus is sort of like a squid in a shell. It moves by taking water in one end and shooting water back out of the other. What is the action force in this action/reaction pair? |
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| This is defined as a measure of mass in motion. |
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| This is defined as a situation in which two objects in close contact exchange energy and momentum. |
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| conservation of momentum. |
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| Newton’s cradle is a device designed to show the concept of |
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| If colliding objects have very different masses, the object with ______________ mass will experience the greater change in velocity. |
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If each of the following objects had the same velocity, which one would have more momentum?
A. sumo wrestler
B. hummingbird
C. bowling ball
D. football |
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| Newton did not benefit from technology like we have today. Most of his theories began as |
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