Ethan Myers

4/14/2017

UNIT 1 VOCABULARY

1. Position: The location of an object

a. Position: where something is

2. Speed: a rate at which something or someone is able to move or operate

a. how fast you are going

3. Reference point: is a location to which you compare other location

a. Reference point:

4. Vector: a quantity that has both size and direction.

a. Vector: something with matter and direction

5. Motion: is a change in position over time

a. Motion: getting moved Velocity the speed of an object in a
direction

6. Velocity: Speed in specific direction

a. Velocity:

7. Acceleration: The rate at which velocity changes.

a. Accelerate: if it goes faster

8.centripetal acceleration: acceleration in circular motion

a. Centripetal acceleration: The movement of a bike petal

10. Force: Is simply a push or pull.

a. What Yoda Teaches Luke

11. Inertia: is the tendency of all objects to restrict and change in motion
a. A bike keeps rolling even without pealing

12. Net Force: The combination of all forces acting on an object.

a. All the kids on the same side of the tug of war

13.Gravity: is the force of attraction between objects due to their mass

a. The force that keeps you on the ground

14. Freefall: when gravity is pulling on an object and no other forces are
acting on it
a. Dropping a pen

15. Orbit: when an object travels around another object in space.

a. the moon orbits earth by going around it
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16. Fluid: Any material that can flow and that takes the shape of the
container
a. anything that can flow through a hole

17. Pressure: is the measure of how much force is on a given area.

a. the harder you push the more pressure

18. Pascal: the SI unit for pressure is the pascal, one pascal is the force of
one newton expanded over 1 square meter
a. the way to measure an SI unit

19. Atmospheric Pressure: the pressure caused by the weight of the

atmosphere
a. The weight of space

20. Buoyant Force: the pressure that the fluid exerts against the bottom of
an object
a. what keeps a boat floating

21. Archimedes Principle: the buoyant force acting on an object in a fluid

is an upward force equal to the weight of fluid displays
a. the same as buoyant force