A | B |
stationary | not moving at all |
constant speed | type of motion with no acceleration |
constant acceleration | increasing speed smoothly over time |
constant deceleration | decreasing speed smoothly over time |
distance time graph | type of graph that can show motion |
velocity time graph | type of graph that can show motion |
start and end times | what we should state for a section of a graph |
a section | what we call a part of a graph (one shape) |
push or pull | a force can be thought of as a ... |
thrust | a type of force (pushing) |
support force | a surface holds up an object with this |
lift force | if a woman moves a box upwards, she uses... |
weight force | the force of gravity on an object |
mass | how much matter is in an object |
Newtons | the unit for force |
metres per second squared | the unit for acceleration (and deceleration) |
negative acceleration | deceleration |
metres per second | the unit for speed |
zero metres per second | a stationary object has a speed of ... |
zero metres per second squared | a stationary object has an acceleration of |
zero metres per second squared | objects moving at constant speed have .... |
balanced | If net force is zero, the forces on an object are... |
net force | overall/total force acting on object |
opposing forces | what do we subtract to get net force |
opposing | a word that means 'opposite' |
reversing | moving backwards |
has negative speed | an object returning back to its start point... |
accelerating at a constant rate | NEVER say "accelerating at a constant speed", say ... |
rate | the amount of something over time |
adding the forces together | two forces are acting in the same direction. We get net force by.... |
velocity | another word for speed at Year 11 |