Describing Motion Newton's Laws of Motion Review

A person's body is thrown outward as a car rounds a curve on a highway. This describes ___.

• Newton's First Law
• Newton's Second Law
• Newton's Third Law
• Law of Action/Reaction

Resistance to change in motion

• Friction
• Gravity
• Inertia
• Mass

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Which of Newton's Laws is demonstrated by a ball rolling to a wall then stopping? 

• Newton's First Law
• Newton's Second Law
• Newton's Third Law
• Law of Acceleration

A magician pulls a tablecloth out from under dishes and glasses on a table without disturbing them.  This describes ___.

• Newton's First Law
• Newton's Second Law
• Newton's Third Law
• Law of Acceleration

An object’s acceleration depends on its mass and the net force acting on it.

• Newton's First Law
• Newton's Second Law
• Newton's Third Law
• All of these

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An object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion is stay in motion unless an unbalanced force acts on it.

• Newton's First Law
• Newton's Second Law
• Newton's Third Law
• All of these

For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.

• Newton's First Law
• Newton's Second Law
• Newton's Third Law
• All of these

A soccer ball accelerates more than a bowling ball when thrown with the same force. This describes ___.

• Newton's First Law
• Newton's Second Law
• Newton's Third Law
• None of these

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If you push on a wall with a force of 10 Newtons, the force acting on you is

• 0 Newtons
• 10 Newtons
• 20 Newtons
• 30 Newtons

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A book is sitting on a dashboard of a car that's stopped at a traffic light. As the car starts to move forward, the book slides off the dashboard. Pick the most correct explanation.

• There was grease on the dashboard 
• The object had inertia. 
• A supernatural force took over. 
• Air resistance made the book move backward.