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Newton’s Laws – Graphic Organizer
Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to identify details of the three Newton’s Law of Motion

Look online at:

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Tutorial/Newton-s-Laws
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/forces-newtons-laws

Directions: For each cluster marked for one of Newton’s Laws, identify its definition, important formula(s) and label
important vocabulary word, and one self-note (in your own words, one to two sentence or diagram) about the law.

NO formula!
Object at rest stay sat Remember
rest an object in Inertia
motion stays in Things stay the way
motion with the same they are. The law has to
speed and direction do things with inertia.
unless acted upon by
an unbalanced force
Newton’s
First Law of
Motion

The acceleration of an
object as produced by a
net force is directly For every action,
proportional to the there is an equal
Newton’s
magnitude of the net force and opposite
Laws
acting on it. reaction

Newton’s Newton’s
Second Law Third Law
of Motion of Motion

FAB = -FBA
F=ma
Force Action = Reaction

The rate of change in A force exerted on

velocity of an object is something results
directly proportional to in an equal force
the force acting on it acting back on it.
with inverse to its
mass.