Name: __________________________________________ Period: ___ Date: _________
Dekalb Reads Assignment 8.3A
Newton’s laws of Motion
Read pages 268-270 and answer the following questions
- Every motion is related to a ____________________________________________.
- Name the scientist who described relationship between motion and force.
- A book slides farther on ice when compare to carpet- why?
- Wrote down the statement of Newton’s first law.
- What happens to your body when a moving car comes to a stop?
- Define inertia.
- All objects have inertia because they __________________
- Why is a larger force required to accelerate a car?
- What does Newton’s first law describe?
- Force equals _______________________________.
- What does Newton’s 2nd law describe?
- Write down the statement of Newton’s 2nd law.
- Write down the equation for Newton’s 2nd law.
- If equal amount of force is used to push an empty and a full cart, which one will accelerate more? And why?
- What will happen if two carts having equal mass are pushed with different amount of force?
- The acceleration is always in the direction of ___________________.
- Force in measured in _________________________.
- Define Newton.
- One Newton is equivalent to _________________ pounds.
- One Pound is equal to _______________ Newton.