Motion and Momentum

No matter which path you take to school, your_____ never changes.  You start at home and end at school.

• displacement
• distance
• motion
• speed

One day you discover a shortcut to school.  You have just shortened your______.

• displacement
• distance
• reference point
• speed

Paul is driving 55 miles per hour due north.  This describes Paul's _________.

• acceleration
• motion 
• speed
• velocity

On a distance vs time graph, an increase in speed is shown by a......

• horizontal line
• line slanted up to the right
• line slanted down to the right
• zig zag line

An object's inertia depends on its....

• mass
• volume
• energy
• gravity

An object's inertia depends on its....

• mass
• volume
• energy
• gravity

Momentum depends on ________ and _________

• mass and weight
• weight and inertia
• velocity and weight
• mass and velocity

Acceleration is a change in....

• speed
• velocity
• displacement
• position

________resists a change in motion of an object.

• centripetal acceleration
• inertia
• gravity
• mass

Law of Conservation of Momentum states that.....

• the total momentum of objects in a collision is the same before and after a collision.
• momentum always changes
• momentum resists a change in motion
• momentum changes directions when objects collide