Vocab: Motion and Forces

The rate at which velocity changes over time; an object accelerates if its speed, direction or both changes.

• Momentum

• Acceleration

• Speed

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A push or a pull exerted on an object in order to change the motion of the object.

• Force

• Gravity

• Orbit

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the motion of a body when only the force of gravity is acting on it.

• Gravity

• Free Fall

• Velocity

a force of attraction between objects due to their masses.

• Force

• Intertia

• Gravity

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The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion unless an outside force acts on the object

• Motion

• Inertia

• Speed

an object's change in position relative to a reference point.

• Speed

• Force

• Motion

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A path that a body follows as it travels around another body in space.

• Free fall

• Orbit

• Net force

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the speed of an object in a particular direction

• Speed

• Acceleration

• Velocity

the combination of all the forces acting on an object.

• Net force

• Gravity

• Free fall

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The distance traveled divided by the time it took.

• Acceleration

• Speed

• Inertia