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Science CH 10 vocab
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8th Grade
10/02/2012

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distance traveled divided by the time taken to travel the distance
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speed
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found by dividing the toatl distance traveled by the time taken
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average speed
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speed of an object at one instant of time
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instantaneous speed
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speed of the object and the direction of its motion
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velocity
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the change in velocity divided by the time it takes for the change to occur
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acceleration
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the amount of matter in an object
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mass
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tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion
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intertia
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measure of how hard it is to stop the object and it depends on the object's mass and velocity
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momentum
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the total momentum of objects that collide is the same before and after the collsion
Definition
law of conservation of momentum
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