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FORCE
- What is force
- A push or a
pull
- Described by its strengh
and by the direction in
which it acts
- A projectile
- When you throw a projectile at an upward
angle, the force of gravity reduces its vertical
velocity
- Eventually the upward motion of the projictile will
stop and gravity will pull it back toward the ground
- From this point the projectile will fall
at the same rate as any dropped
object
- An object that is thrown
- If two balls are thworn one horizontally
and one vertically
- Gravity acts the same way on both
- So both fall at the same rate
- And will hit the ground at exactly the same time
- Types of forces
- Net force
- When more than a
single force acts on an
object at one time
- It is the combination of
all forces acting on a
object
- It determines wheter an
object moves and also in
which direction it moves
- Two kinds
- Unbalanced forces
- Result in a net
force and cause a
change in the
object's motion
- It can cause on object to start,
stop moving or change direction
- Whenever there is a net
force acting on a object, the
forces are unbalanced
- Balanced forces
- Do not changethe object's motion
- There is no net force
- Gravity
- A force that pulls objects
towards each other
- Law of Universal Gavitation
- States that the force of gravity acts
between all objects in the universe
- Any two objects in the universe,
without exception, attract each other
- Gravitational attractuion
depends on
- Mass
- Distance
- Gravity increases with mass and dicreases with distance
- On earth, gravity is a downward
force that affects all objects
- Free fall
- When the only force acting on an object is
gravity the object is said to be in free fall
- In free fall, the force of gravity
is an unbalanced force
- Causes an object to accelerate
- At a rate of 9.8 m/s
- All object in free fall accelerate at the
same rate regradless of their massess
- Friction
- Four kinds
- Fluid
- Occurs when a solid
moves through a fluid
- Air resistance
- Objects falling through air experience a
type of fluid friction called air resistance
- Upward force exerted on falling objects
- Not the same for all objects
- Greater surface = more air resistance
- In a vacum where there is no air, all objects
fall with exactly the same rate of
acceleration
- Increases with velocity
- Until it reaches Terminal velocity
- Greatest velocity a falling object reaches
- Reached when the force of air resistance
equals the weight of the object
- Forces become balanced
- No more acceleration
- The object continues to fall but its velocity remains constant
- Sliding
- Occurs when two solid surfaces
slide over each other
- Rolling
- occurs when an object rolls across
a surface
- Static
- Acts on objects not moving
- Because of it, you must use an extra
force greater than static friction to start
the motion of stationary objects
- Once the object is moving, there is no
longer static friction
- Other types take over
- The force that two surfaces
exert on each other when
they rub against each other
- The strengh of the force of
friction depends on
- how hard the surfaces push together
- types of surfaces involved
- Friction always acts in a direction
opposie to the direction of the
object's motion
- Rolling and fluid
friction is easier to
overcome than
sliding friction
- How is it
measured
- Force
- When arrows are used
- When forces act in the same direction,
they combine by the addition of
their individual forces
- When forces act in opposite directions, they
combine by the substraction of their
individual forces
- The net force always acts in the direction
of the greater force
- If the opposing forces are
of equal strengh, there is no
net force.
- There is no change in he object's
motion
- In order to find
net force
- In Newton (N)
- SI unit
- Weight and Mass
- Mass is a measure of the
amount of matter in a object
- The force of gravity on a person or object at
the surface of a planet is known as weight
- Weight is a measure of the gravitational
force exerted on it
- Weight varies with the strengh of the
gravitational force but mass doesn't
- How is it
represented
- With an
arrow
- The arrow points in the direction of a
force
- The length of the arrow
tells you the strengh of
a force
- Longer = greater