Unit 4 Vocabulary (Force, Motion, Work, Machines)

a push or pull upon an object resulting from the object's interaction with another object

• Acceleration
• Mass
• Velocity
• Force

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how much matter is in an object

• Mass

• Density

• Weight

• Volume

the phenomenon in which an object changes its position

• Stability
• Rest
• Stillness
• Motion

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"how much ground an object has covered" during its motion

• Speed
• Acceleration
• Velocity
• Distance

the object's overall change in position

• velocity
• displacement
• speed
• acceleration

the rate at which an object covers distance

• Speed
• Velocity
• Acceleration
• Momentum

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the speed of something in a given direction

• velocity
• momentum
• acceleration
• speed

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how long it takes for an object to get from its initial position to its final position

• speed

• distance

• time

• velocity

the rate at which an object changes its velocity

• Momentum
• Speed
• Velocity
• Acceleration

the tendency of objects to resist changes in their state of motion

• Inertia
• Momentum
• Acceleration
• Velocity