3.1 - Introduction to Laws of Motion
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Practice Questions
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Define motion in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think about how objects change their location.
What unit measures force?
💡 Hint: Consider who Newton is and his scientific contributions.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does motion refer to?
💡 Hint: Think of how you notice a friend's movement.
True or False: A push or pull is called inertia.
💡 Hint: Differentiate between force and the concept of sticking in place.
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Challenge Problems
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A skateboarder of mass 60 kg wants to accelerate and achieve a speed of 5 m/s. If they need a force of 75 N to do this, is this possible?
💡 Hint: Use the formula to derive acceleration and then rearrange to find time needed.
If you have two objects—one weighing 1 kg and the other weighing 3 kg—both dropped from the same height, which will hit the ground first, and why?
💡 Hint: Think about Newton's universal law of gravitation and how it applies to falling objects.
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