laws of motion vocabulary
Across
- 2. A contact force that is perpendicular to the surface that an object makes contact with.
- 5. Devices that increase the speed of, or distance travelled by, an object.
- 10. Complete path travelled by an object; a scalar quantity.
- 11. The speed of a body, including its direction, velocity is a vector quantity.
- 12. The speed of a body, including its direction, velocity is a vector quantity.
Down
- 1. How close the measured value is to the true value.
- 3. The property of a body affected by a gravitational field; also the inertia of a body.
- 4. A simple device involving a solid arm and a fulcrum, which can move to multiply a force applied to one part.
- 6. The shortest distance from the initial position to the final position with a direction given; a vector quantity.
- 7. The goal of a thought experiment is to explore potential consequences of the principle in question without performing the experiment.
- 8. The rate of change of a body’s velocity, including its direction; acceleration is a vector quantity – a body can accelerate by moving faster or slower, or by changing direction.
- 9. Any object, generally in studies of motion.