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Vocabulary Words

Chapter 2. Vocabulary Words. Acceleration. The rate at which velocity is changing in magnitude, direction or both. Average Speed. Path distance divided by time interval. Elapsed Time. Time that passed since the beginning of an event. Free Fall.

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Vocabulary Words

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  1. Chapter 2 Vocabulary Words

  2. Acceleration

  3. The rate at which velocity is changing in magnitude, direction or both

  4. Average Speed

  5. Path distance divided by time interval

  6. Elapsed Time

  7. Time that passed since the beginning of an event

  8. Free Fall

  9. Motion under the influence of the gravitational force

  10. Instantaneous Speed

  11. Speed at any instant of time

  12. Rate

  13. How much something changes per unit of time

  14. Relative

  15. Regarded in relation to something else

  16. Speed

  17. How fast something is moving, distance moved over time

  18. Velocity

  19. Speed together with the direction of motion

  20. Chapter 3

  21. Component

  22. One of the vectors, often mutually perpendicular, whose sum is a resultant vector.

  23. Projectile

  24. An object that moves through the air or space acted on only by gravity.

  25. Resolution

  26. The process of determining the components of a vector.

  27. Resultant

  28. The vector sum of two or more component vectors.

  29. Satellite

  30. An object that falls around Earth or some other body rather than into it.

  31. Scalar Quantity

  32. A scaled amount only.

  33. Vector

  34. An arrow whose length represents the magnitude of a quantity and whose direction represents the direction of the quantity.

  35. Vector Quantity

  36. Includes a magnitude and direction.

  37. Key Terms: Chapter 4

  38. Equilibrium

  39. In general, a state of balance

  40. Force

  41. Any push or pull

  42. Friction

  43. The force that resists relative motion of objects or materials that are in contact

  44. Inertia

  45. The reluctance of any body to change its state of motion

  46. Kilogram

  47. SI unit of motion

  48. Law of Inertia

  49. Every body continues in its state of rest or motion in a straight line at a constant speed unless compelled to chage that state by a net force exerted upon it

  50. Mass

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