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Name:_______________________
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FORCES IN ONE DIMENSION
Vocabulary Review
Write the term that correctly completes the statement. Use each term once.
contact force
inertia
equilibrium
interaction pair
force
net force
free-body diagram
Newton’s first law
gravitational field
Newton’s second law
Newton’s third law
normal force
tension
terminal velocity
weight
1. _________________________
“An object that is at rest will remain at rest, and an object that is moving
will continue to move in a straight line with constant speed, if and only
if the net force acting on the object is zero.” This sentence is a
statement of ____ .
2. _________________________
A push or a pull is a(n) ____ .
3. _________________________
Two forces that are in opposite directions, have equal magnitudes, and
act on different objects are a(n) ____ .
4. _________________________
A force exerted by any segment of a rope or string on an adjoining
segment is ____ .
5. _________________________
The vector sum of two or more forces acting on an object is the ____ .
6. _________________________
The net force on an object in ____ is zero.
7. _________________________
“The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force
on it and inversely proportional to its mass.” This sentence is a
statement of ____ .
8. _________________________
A force that acts on an object by touching it is a(n) ____ .
9. _________________________
“The two forces in an interaction pair act on different objects and are
equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.” This sentence is a
statement of ____ .
10. _________________________
A perpendicular contact force exerted by a surface on another object is
a(n) ____ .
11. _________________________
The tendency of an object to resist changes in its motion is ____ .
12. _________________________
In a(n) ____ , a dot represents an object and arrows represent each
force acting on it, with their tails on the dot and their points indicating
the direction of the force.
13. _________________________
The constant velocity that a falling object reaches when the drag force
equals the gravitational force is its ____ .
14. _________________________
The vector quantity that relates an object’s mass to the gravitational
force it experiences at a given location is called ____ .
15. _________________________
The gravitational force experienced by an object is the object’s ____ .
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