TEKS: P.5E/F Newton's 1st and 2nd Law Vocab

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Newton’s 2nd Law

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States that the acceleration of an object is proportional to the net force and inversely proportional to the mass of the object being accelerated.

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Newton’s 1st Law

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States that an object at rest will remain at rest and a moving object will continue moving in a straight line with constant speed, if and only if the net force acting on that object is zero.

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Inertia

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The tendency of an object to resist changes in velocity.

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Equilibrium

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The condition in which the net force on an object is zero.

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Force

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A push or a pull exerted on an object; has both direction and magnitude and may be a contact or a field force.

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Newton

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SI unit of force (N).

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System

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Object or objects of interest that can interact with each other and the external world.

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Contact Force

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A force that is exerted on the object through some form of physical contact with the object.

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Field Force

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A force exerted by means of a field force, such as gravitational, magnetic, or electric field.

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Agent

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The specific and identifiable cause of a force.