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| Speed that doesn't change. |
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| The rate of motion, or the rate at which a body changes position. |
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| A rate of motion determined by dividing the total distance traveled by the total travel time. |
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| The speed and direction of a moving body. |
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| The rate of change in velocity (a change in direction or a change in speed). |
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| A push or pull one body exerts on another. |
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| The tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion. |
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| The sum of the forces on an object when unbalanced forces are applied to it. |
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| The force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are touching each other. |
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| Force exerted by every object in the universe on every other object. |
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| The measure of the force of gravity on an object. |
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| A property of any moving object; the product of its mass and velocity. |
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| law of conservation of momentum |
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| A law stating that the total momentum of a group of objects is conserved unless a net force acts on the objects. |
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| newton's second law of motion |
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| Describes the acceleration of an object in the direction of the net force applied to it. |
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| newton's third law of motion |
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| Describes action-reaction pairs; for every action force, there is an equal and opposite reaction force. |
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