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How do you find distance and acceleration in a speed-time graph?

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The distance is the area under the graph.

The slope represents acceleration. A steep slope means high acceleration, a horizontal line means no acceleration.

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How do you find speed and acceleration on a distance-time graph?

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The gradient is the speed.

A straight gradient means no acceleration, curving up is acceleration and curving down is deceleration.

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What is the difference between speed and velocity? H

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Velocity is speed in a particular direction. It is therefore possible to have a negative velocity.

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What is the resultant force?

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The overall force on an object which moves it in a particular direction.

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What happens if a resultant force acts upon a moving object?

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The object will speed up or slow down.

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What happens when a resultant force acts upon a stationary object?

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The object will speed up.

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What happens when the forces are balanced on a stationary object?

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The object remains stationary.

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What happens when the forced are balanced on a moving object?

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The object moves at a constant rate.

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What is the difference between mass and weight? How do you go from one to the other?

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Weight is a downwards force (N) while mass is the matter an object is made of (kg).
Weight = mass x gravity (10 on Earth)

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What is terminal velocity?

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Terminal velocity is the maximum constant speed which an object can reach on gravity alone.

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What is inertia?

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Inertia is a body’s ability to resist movement.

A large, fast object will resist slowing down, while a small light object will easily move.

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What is Newtons First Law?

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An object at rest, stays at rest. An object in motion carries on travelling at the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

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What is Newtons Second Law?

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The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the resultant force and inversely proportional to the mass.

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What is Newtons Third Law?

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When object A puts a force on object B, object B puts an equal and opposite force on object A

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How are GE and KE linked?

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As GP decreased, KE increases. When one is at its maximum, the other is at its minimum.