Chapters 3 & 4: Acceleration, Free Fall, Force, Weight, Drag, Newton's Laws,

The normal force is always equal to the object’s weight.

The motion of an object when gravity is the only significant force acting on it is referred to as ____.

Astronauts on the Space Station experience weightlessness because the gravity at that altitude is negligible.

If an object is at rest, it will remain at rest unless acted upon by:

The gravitational field at Earth’s surface causes an acceleration of _____ to any object placed there.

_____ is the force exerted by a fluid on an object traveling through the fluid

What is weight?

True or False: The following quote was written by Sir Isaac Newton in the General Scholium of his famous Principia.

If the net force on an object is zero, which of the following is true?

Net forces cause _____.

Force is a ____.

In Newton's 2nd law, the acceleration is directly proportional to which quantity?

When dropping a bowling ball and a feather in a vacuum, which will hit the ground first?

Newton's second law states that acceleration is inversely proportional to what quantity?

An object accelerates in all of the following conditions except _____.

When you push against a wall, the wall "pushes" back. True or false?

______ is the perpendicular contact force exerted by a surface on another object.

Newton's 3rd law states that forces are ______ in magnitude and _______ in direction

The definition of acceleration is _____.

Where is the object not moving?

Which variable did sky diver Felix Baumgartner seek to change in order to achieve a supersonic terminal velocity?

Newtons first law is also known as the law of ______ ?

Galileo discovered that, neglecting the effects of air resistance, all objects in free fall have the same ____.

The sum of all the forces acting on an object is called _____.

F=ma is associated with which of Newton's Laws?

The gravitational field strength at earth's surface is ____.

In physics, a vacuum refers to ____.

____ is the tendency of an object to resist changes in motion.

The slope of a Velocity-Time (VT) graph gives us ____.

What is the acceleration due to gravity on earth?

Which of the following is NOT an example of a field force?

How many Laws of Motion are there?

The force acting on each unit of mass at a given location is called _____.

When an object is in equilibrium, what can be said of its motion?

The constant velocity that is reached when the drag force equals the force of gravity is called the _____.

In free body diagrams, force vectors are drawn pointing _____ the particle.

In free body diagrams, a particle (dot) or box is drawn to represent the ____ of the object being acted upon.

When is the object not accelerating?

A physical representation that shows the forces acting on a system is called _____.

During Apollo 15, Dave Scott performed an experiment to prove that objects fall at the same rate using a feather and a _