Chapter 2 Vocab

True or False: Motion is the change of an objects position relative to a reference point

• False

• True

True or False: Displacement is the distance and direction of an object's change in position from the starting point.

• True

• False

True or False: Speed is the distance an object travels per unit of time

• False

• True

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Property of a moving object that equals its mass times its velocity

• Momentum

• Speed

• Motion

• Displacement

The speed and direction of an object

• Motion

• Velocity

• Speed

• Momentum

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The rate of change of velocity; can be calculated by dividing the change in the velocity by the time it takes the change to occur

• Motion

• Speed

• Acceleration

• Velocity

Acceleration of an object toward the center of a curved or circular path

• Acceleration

• Centripetal Acceleration

• Motion

• Speed