Chapter 12 Review
Across
- 2. Force that opposes motion
- 3. Newton's ________ Law Law of motion that relates the net force acting on an object to its mass and acceleration
- 5. Product of an object's mass and velocity
- 8. Friction that opposes the start of motion
- 16. The frictional force of air acting against an object in motion
- 17. SI unit of force
- 18. Force that exists between charged particles and is responsible for the behavior of electric and magnetic fields
- 19. Friction that opposes the motion of an object sliding on a surface
- 20. Force of attraction between two objects due to their masses
- 21. The sum of all forces acting on an object
- 26. The motion of an object that is launched into the air and then follows a curved path under the influence of gravity
- 27. Italian scientist who made important contributions to the study of motion and the development of experimental physics
- 30. Force exerted on an object due to gravity
- 31. Forces that cancel each other out and result in no motion
Down
- 1. Law proposed by Newton that describes the gravitational force between two objects
- 4. The constant speed reached by an object falling through a fluid due to air resistance
- 6. Forces that result in motion in a particular direction
- 7. Force that acts on an object moving in a circular path and is directed toward the center of the circle.
- 9. Law of ___Law that states that the total momentum of a system of objects remains constant if there are no external forces acting on the system
- 10. Newton's ________ Law Law of motion that states that an object at rest will remain at rest, and an object in motion will remain in motion at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by an unbalanced force
- 11. Friction that opposes the motion of an object rolling on a surface
- 12. Amount of matter in an object
- 13. Tendency of an object to resist changes in its state of motion
- 14. Force of attraction between two objects
- 15. Force responsible for certain types of radioactive decay
- 22. Newton's ________ Law Law of motion that states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
- 23. Friction that opposes the motion of an object through a fluid
- 24. Force that binds together the protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom
- 25. A push or a pull
- 28. Greek philosopher who proposed a theory of motion before the development of modern physics
- 29. English physicist and mathematician who developed the laws of motion and gravity