Newton's Three Laws of Motion Vocabulary

Inertia is used when explaining Newton's

• first law of motion

• second law of motion

• third law of motion

When you are standing up in a train, and the train suddenly stops, your body continues to go forward.

• Newton's first law

• Newton's second law

• Newton's third law

After you start up your motorbike, as you give it more gas, it goes faster.

• Newton's first law

• Newton's second law

• Newton's third law

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Action and reaction force pairs occur

• only when there is motion.

• only when there is no motion.

• whether there is motion or not.

Which of Newton's laws of motion does the image best represent?

• Newton's First Law

• Newton's Second Law

• Newton's Third Law

• Newton's 4th Law

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Which of the following is an application of Newton's Laws?

• A rocket launching into space.

• A book resting on a table.

• A car accelerating on a highway.

• All of the above.

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When a cannon fires a cannonball we observe Newton's third law. Which is the reaction force?

• The cannon moving forward

• The cannon moving backwards

• The cannonball moving backwards

• The cannonball moving forward

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Who is the scientist who determined the laws of motion?

• Galileo

• Newton

• Einstein

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Which law best describes how boats work?

• first law

• second law

• third law

Newton's ___ law of motion is also know as the law of inertia.

• First

• Second

• Third