Force and Acceleration Vocabulary

A measure of the change in velocity during a period of time.

• Acceleration

• Force

• Friction

• Net Force

A push or a pull on an object.

• Net Force

• Acceleration

• Force

• Contact Force

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A push or a pull on one object by another object that is touching it.

• Contact Force

• Force

• Net Force

• Friction

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States that the acceleration of an object equals the net force of an object divided by the object's mass.

• Newton's first law of motion

• Newton's second law of motion

• Newton's third law of motion

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A force that resists the sliding motion of two surfaces that are touching.

• Acceleration

• Contact Force

• Velocity

• Friction

a simple model to understand systems of objects with any amount of applied forces.

• Net Force

• Friction

• Free-Body Diagram

• Newton's first law of motion

the sum of all the forces acting on an object.

• Net Force

• Force

• Contact Force

• Acceleration

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States that an object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted on by a force.

• Newton's first law of motion

• Newton's second law of motion

• Newton's third law of motion