Using the following words, fill in the blanks: speed, inertia, acceleration
1) A pool player hits the eight ball, which slams into a second ball. The eight ball stops, but the second ball goes forward, because of ___________.
2) Jim's little sister isn't swinging very high, so he gives her a huge push to get into her higher. This shows an increase in __________.
3) Tom bragged to Tara that he watched a centipede crawl the whole length of his room in the time he did his homework. His room is 16 ft. long and his homework took 2.5 hours, so the centipede traveled at 6.4 ft/hr. What characteristic of motion has he calculated?
2006-12-13 12:25:10 · 3 answers · asked by Red 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
1) newton's law of motion
2) altitude
3) speed/rate of motion
2006-12-13 12:35:33 · answer #1 · answered by alias101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
newtons first law, acceleration/applied force/momentum, speed
2006-12-13 20:52:15 · answer #2 · answered by bob c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
acceleration
inertia
speed
2006-12-13 20:35:39 · answer #3 · answered by MISS-MARY 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋