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| process of energy transferred in or out of the system, equals the amount of energy transferred, determined by product of force in direction of motion |
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| rate at which work is done or can be done, scalar |
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| measures ability to do work |
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| energy of a moving object or ability to do work |
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| Gravitational Potential Energy |
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| energy that an object has in a gravitational field |
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| energy in a stretched or compressed spring |
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| the net work on a system changes its kinetic energy |
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| force for which works depends on starting and ending points of motion |
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| force for which work depends on the path |
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| Closed (conservative) system |
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| system of objects that experience conservation force only |
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| Open(nonconservate) system |
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| system subjected to nonconservative forces |
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| sum of kinetic and potential energy |
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| Conservation of mechanical energy |
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| in a closed system total amount of mechanical energy before and after physical process remains the same |
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| vector physical quantity equal to product of mass times velocity, |
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| vector, equal a product of a force with a time interval |
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| group of objects which the net external force (external action) is equal to zero |
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| collision in the system of 2 or more bodies during which there is conservation of momentum and kinetic energy |
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| collision in the system of 2 or more bodies during which there is conservation of momentum but no conservation of kinetic energy |
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| force produced by an ejected gas on a jet engine’s (a rocket’s) body |
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| Conservation of linear momentum |
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| in isolated system total amount of linear momentum remains the same |
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