Inertia or Weight? Newton’s 1 st & 2 nd Laws Name that Force Newton’s 3 rd Law
Row 1, Col 1 Inertia is a measure of an object’s What is mass (tendency to resist a change in motion)?
1,2 A 10 N falling object encounters 4 N of air resistance. What is the magnitude of the net force acting on the object. What is 6 N?
1,3 A force which is always in the opposite direction compared to an object’s motion. What is friction?
1,4 If a baseball player bats a ball with a force of 1000 N, the ball exerts a _____reaction force against the bat. What is 1000 N?
2,1 Your gravitational attraction to the earth is a measure of your _____. What is weight (or gravitational force)?
If a crate is moving with constant velocity when being pulled with a pull force of 500 N, what is the Net Force acting on the crate? 2,2 What is zero?
2,3 What is the force which acts during Free Fall? What is a gravitational force (or force of gravity)?
2,4 The force of the earth pulling on a person’s body is called weight. The reaction to this force is What is the person’s body pulling on the earth?
3,1 One object has twice as much mass as a second object. The first object will also always have twice as much What is inertia?
3,2 A bus has a mass of 8,000 kg and accelerates at 2 m/s 2. What is the magnitude of the force acting on the car? What is 16,000 N?
3,3 A force that acts due to the presence of air. What is air resistance (or drag)?
3,4 A car traveling at 100 km/h strikes a hapless bug and splatters it. Compared to the force of impact on the car, the force of impact on the bug is What is the same?
4,1 A bag of groceries has a mass of 10 kg and a weight of about What is 100 N?
4,2 A round rock weighs 30 N on Earth. A square rock weighs 30 N on the Moon. Which rock has more mass? What is the square rock?
4,3 A force in a rope, cable, chain or string. What is a tension force?
4,4 Two people pull on a rope in at tug-of-war. Each pulls with 400 N of force. What is the tension in the rope? What is 400 N?
5,1 What is the net force and corresponding acceleration of the box (mass of the box is 2 kg)? What is 3 N upwards & 1.5 m/s 2 ? 5 N 4 N 8 N 12 N 2 N
5,2 A 2000 kg car has a braking force of 10,000 N as it skids to a stop in 6 seconds. What was the initial velocity of the car? What is 30 m/s?
5,3 A supporting force which is perpendicular to a surface. What is a normal force?
5,4 A reaction force which causes a horse to walk forward. What is the force of the ground pushing on the horse’s hooves?