Chapter 12: Newton's Laws Vocabulary Quiz

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Across
  1. 4. a force that acts between any two masses
  2. 5. the overall force acting on an oject after all the forces are combined
  3. 6. a friction force that acts on rolling objects
  4. 7. a force that opposes the motion of objects that touch as they move past each other
  5. 10. the motion of a falling object after it is given an initial forward velocity
  6. 11. a push or pull on an object
  7. 13. a powerful force of attraction that acts between neutrons and protons in the nucleus
  8. 16. the force of gravity acting on an object
  9. 17. a force associated with charged particles
  10. 19. the tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion
  11. 20. the product of an object's mass and its velocity
Down
  1. 1. a force that opposes the direction of motion of an object as it slides over a surface
  2. 2. opposes the motion of an object through a fluid
  3. 3. a measure of the inertia of an object and depends on the amount of matter the object contains
  4. 8. the constant velocity of a falling object when the force of air resistance equals the force of gravity
  5. 9. fluid friction acting on an object moving through the air
  6. 12. the friction force that acts on objects that are not moving
  7. 14. equal to 1 kilogram-meter per second squared
  8. 15. an attractive force that acts only over a short range
  9. 18. a center-directed force that continuously changes the direction of an object to make it move around the center