- friction between two or more solidobjects that are not moving relative toeach other
- ex) a car wheel moving on a road
- Dynamic friction
- dynamic friction occurs when two objects aremoving relative to each other and rubtogether
- ex ) sled on the ground
Centripetal force
- A force that makes a bodyfollow a curved path
- centripetal force = mass x velocity^2 / radius
- Circular motion
- the force keeping objects moving with a circularpath(orbit) acts towards the centre of the circle of motion.IF the force stops, the object will continue in a straightline.
Terminal velocity
- the drag force equals the driving force
Forces
- Newton's third law states that for every actionforce there is an equal (in size) and opposite (indirection) reaction force
- Reaction force
- the force that acts in theopposite direction to an actionforce
- Action force
- the force which acts on thebody due to some externaleffort
Acceleration of Free Fall
- A free falling object is an object that'sfalling under the sole influence of gravity.
- Chracteristics of free-falling objects
- Do not encounter air resistance
- All accelerate downwards at arate of 9.8m/s/s
- G (gravity) is always constant
- F = mg = ma
Speed & Velocity & Acceleration
- Speed
- speed = distance / time
- how fast an object is moving
- scalar quantity(described bymagnitude alone)
- Velocity
- velocity = displacement / time
- the rate at which an objectchanges its position
- vector quantity(described byboth a magnitude and adirection)
- Acceleration
- final velocity - initial velocity / time
- the rate at which the velocity ofa body changes with time