6.3.2 Force, Speed, Motion, Inclined Planes Vocabulary

The change in an object's position with respect to time and in comparison with the position of other objects used as reference points.

• distance

• force

• motion

• graph

A straight path that an object can move along

• velocity

• displacement

• average speed

• direction

A push or a pull.

• force

• speed

• time

• velocity

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The overall force acting on an object when all the individual forces acting on it are added together.

• unbalanced force

• displacement

• graph

• net force

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a distance an object travels over time

• spring scale

• speed

• velocity

• average

Forces on an object that cause change in the motion of the object.

• average speed

• balanced forces

• unbalanced forces

• direction

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Separate forces on an object that combined do not change the movement of the object.

• balanced force

• net force

• unbalanced force

• constant speed

The rate of change in an object’s speed (A=Final V-Initial V)/time or A=F/M); can be faster or slower.

• displacement

• graph

• acceleration

• speed

Change in postion.

• velocity

• displacement

• distance

• acceleration

calculated by adding all data and dividing by the number of data entries   

• time

• graph

• average

• constant speed