Motion vocab
Across
- 3. the sum of 2 or more vectors
- 5. the length of a straight line from the starting point to the ending point & the direction of movement; used to describe an object's position to a given point; tells the magnitude & direction
- 8. the movement of an object toward Earth solely because of gravity
- 9. the ratio of the distance an object moves to the amount of time the object moves
- 10. a quantity that has a magnitude and direction
- 12. a description of both the speed and direction of motion
- 14. a curve that connects the data points that are plotted
- 15. movement in relation to a frame of reference
Down
- 1. the length of a path between two points
- 2. a system of objects that are not moving with respect to one another
- 4. the velocity of the object changes by the same amount amount each second; a steady change in velocity
- 6. the rate at which velocity changes
- 7. the rate at which an object is moving at a given moment in time
- 11. total distance traveled divided by the amount of tie it takes to travel that distance; total distance divided by total time
- 13. the graph of displayed data that form a straight line