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| Any influence that ends to accelerate an object; a push or a pull, measured in newtons. A vector quantity. |
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| The combination of all the forces that act on an object. |
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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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| A quantity in physics, such as force, that has both magnitude and direction. |
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| A quantity in physics, such as mass, volume, and time, that can be completely specified by its magnitude, and has no direction. |
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| A state wherein no physical change occurs. |
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| An object is in mechanical equilibrium whenever the net force on the object is zero. |
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| Force that completely balances the weight of an object at rest. |
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| The vector sum of two or more component vectors. |
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