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Dekalb Reads Assignment 8.3A

Newton’s laws of Motion

Read pages 268-270 and answer the following questions

  1. Every motion is related to a ____________________________________________.
  2. Name the scientist who described relationship between motion and force.
  3. A book slides farther on ice when compare to carpet- why?
  4. Wrote down the statement of Newton’s first law.
  5. What happens to your body when a moving car comes to a stop?
  6. Define inertia.
  7. All objects have inertia because they __________________
  8. Why is a larger force required to accelerate a car?
  9. What does Newton’s first law describe?
  10. Force equals _______________________________.
  11. What does Newton’s 2nd law describe?
  12. Write down the statement of Newton’s 2nd law.
  13. Write down the equation for Newton’s 2nd law.
  14. If equal amount of force is used to push an empty and a full cart, which one will accelerate more? And why?
  15. What will happen if two carts having equal mass are pushed with different amount of force?
  16. The acceleration is always in the direction of ___________________.
  17. Force in measured in _________________________.
  18. Define Newton.
  19. One Newton is equivalent to _________________ pounds.
  20. One Pound is equal to _______________ Newton.
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