Mechanics Vocabulary and prerequisite knowledge
Across
- 5. the rate of change of an object's velocity with respect to time, representing how quickly an object speeds up, slows down, or changes direction.
- 6. an event where two or more bodies move, interact, and exert strong, short-lived forces on each other, often exchanging momentum and kinetic energy.
Down
- 1. reduction in volume or size of a solid, liquid, or gas caused by applying inward-acting forces, which increases density and stress within the material.
- 2. the principle that specific, measurable properties of an isolated system—such as energy, momentum, or charge—remain constant over time, neither created nor destroyed, only transformed or transferred.
- 3. the measure of an object's motion
- 4. a push or pull interaction between objects that causes a change in motion, velocity, or shape