Work and Machine Vocabulary

Motion: The action or process of moving or changing place positions; movement.Speed: Rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing. Acceleration: Increase of speed or velocity.Work: Something on which exertion or labor is expended.Force: The capacity to do work or cause physical changes.Distance: The property created by the space between two objects or points.Joule: A unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second. Newton: A unit for force equal to the force that imports an acceleration of 1m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram. Machine: Any mechanical or electrical devices that transmits or modifies energy to peform or assist in the performance of humans tasks.Screw: A simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a simillarty threaded hole.Frame of reference: Something that moves. Something that you push or pull. A lie that we tell to other people.Qualitative: Connected with how good something is rather than with how much of it is there.Quantitave: Connected with the amount or number of something rather than with how good it is. 

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