Contact Forces Vocab

What is the device used to measure force?

What does "N" mean in physics?

What is tensional force?

Contact force is 2 objects making contact with eachother

Mass is a measure of how much matter is in something

Weight is the measure of how heavy something is, caused by ______.

Mass does not change if the force of gravity on the item changes

Issac Newton has 3 Laws of Motion

What is an example of contact forces?

Albert Einstein was the first scientist to study physics

What is Newton's Third Law?

Friction _____ motion

Force can change how tall something is

Which is an example of non-contact force?

Air resistance is generated when a skydiver opens their parachute

A box sitting on a table is an example of air resistance

What is mass?

What causes a heavy object and a light object to fall at different rates?

An objects shape effects how fast it falls