Motion and Stability Vocabulary

Interactions between any two objects can cause changes in one or both of them. An understanding of the forces between objects is important for describing how their motions change, as well as for predicting stability or instability in systems at any scale.

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An encounter between objects or particles resulting in exchange or transformation of energy.

• collision

• contact

• kinetic

• potential

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__________ force acts at the point of contact between objects.

• Collision

• Kinetic

• Potential

• Contact

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__________ energy is the energy of motion.

• Collision

• Contact

• Kinetic

• Potential

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__________ energy is the energy of position.

• Electric

• Potential

• Mass

• Energy

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__________ force is a force between two charged particles or objects.

• Electric

• Mass

• Energy

• Distance

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The quantity of matter in an object regardless of its size or of any forces

acting on it.

• electric

• mass

• energy

• distance

The ability to do work.

• electric

• mass

• energy

• distance

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__________ force acts on objects not in contact with one another.

• Energy

• Distance (Non-Contact)

• Third

• Magnetic

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Newton's __________ Law says that for every action, there is an equal and

opposite reaction.

• Second

• Speed

• Force

• Third

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