Chapter 12 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. the tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion.
  2. 5. a push or a pull that acts on an object.
  3. 6. a force that opposes the direction of motion of an object as it slides over a surface.
  4. 7. opposes the motion of an object through a fluid.
  5. 11. the constant velocity of a falling object when the force of air resistance equals the force of gravity.
  6. 14. the product of an object’s mass and its velocity.
  7. 15. the overall force acting on an object after all the forces is combined.
Down
  1. 1. the motion of a falling object after it is given an initial forward velocity.
  2. 3. the friction force that acts on rolling objects.
  3. 4. a force that opposes the motion of objects that touch as they move past each other.
  4. 8. the friction force that acts on objects that are not moving.
  5. 9. a force that acts between any two masses.
  6. 10. fluid friction acting on an object moving through the air.
  7. 12. the force of gravity acting on an object.
  8. 13. the force that causes a 1-kilogram mass to accelerate at a rate of 1 meter per second on each second.
  9. 14. a measure of the inertia of an object and depends on the amount of matter the object contains.