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path distance divided by time interval.
Speed = Distance/Time |
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| Speed at any instant of time. |
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| motion under influence of only the force of gravity and nothing else. |
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| Friction or drag that acts on something moving through air. |
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| the force that attracts a body toward the center of Earth. |
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| Any influence that tends to accelerate an object, a push or pull, measured in newtons. |
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| An arrow whose length represents the magnitude of a quantity and whose direction represents the direction of the quantity. |
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| The measure of an objects inertia, also a measure of the amount of matter in an object. Depends only on the amount of and kind of particles that compose an object - not on its location (as weight does) |
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| the amount of space that a substance or object occupies. |
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Weight = mass x gravity
The force on a body due to the gravitational attraction of another body (commonly Earth) |
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a(squared) + b(squared) = c(squared)
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| A state of balance. The state of a body, an object, or a substance on which no force acts. |
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| For an object resting on a horizontal surface, the upward force that balances the weight of the object, also called the support force. |
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| The state of being tightly stretched. |
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| The state of being pushed. Compressing an object. |
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| When something can be stretched then goes back to its original form. |
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| For every action there is an equal and opposite reason. |
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