Chapter 2

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What term refers to the location of an object?
Position
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What term denotes a change in position?
Motion
3
What kind of quantity only has magnitude?
Scalar Quantities
4
What kind of quantity is scalar?
Speed
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What kind of quantity has magnitude and direction?
Vector Quantities
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What kind of quantity is vector?
Velocity
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What’s the formula for speed? (V = d/t)
Distance traveled/Time to travel distance
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What term refers to the path length traveled?
Distance
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What term refers to the straight-line distance and direction between two points?
Displacement
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What’s the formula for velocity?
Displacement/Total travel time
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What term refers to the rate at which an object’s velocity changes in accordance to time?
Acceleration
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What’s the formula for acceleration?
Change in velocity/Time
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What does a freely falling object have?
Uniformly increasing velocity
14
What is necessary for uniform circular motion?
Centripedal Acceleration
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What is demonstrated through the concept of an object moving horizontally with a constant speed, while its vertical motion is under the influence of gravity?
Projectile Motion
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What is defined by the concept of force x distance?
Work
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What law states that change in mass is indetectable during a chemical reaction?
The Law of Conservation of Mass
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