Physics Quiz

What is the starting point you choose to describe the location or position of an object?

• Motion

• Reference point

• Displacement

• Dimension

What is the process of changing position called?

• Speed

• Velocity

• Motion

• Force

What is the difference between the initial position and the final position of an object?

• Dimension

• Displacement

• Reference direction

• Slope

What is a measure of the distance an object travels in a given amount of time?

• Velocity

• Speed

• Acceleration

• Inertia

What is the SI unit used to measure the strength of a force?

• Newton

• Joule

• Watt

• Pascal

What is the contact force that resists the sliding motion of two surfaces that are touching?

• Air resistance

• Friction

• Inertia

• Acceleration

What law states that an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion unless a force acts on it?

• Newton's 2nd Law of Motion

• Newton's 1st Law of Motion

• Law of Inertia

• Law of Acceleration

What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?

• The force that pushes perpendicular to the object's surface.

• When colliding objects bounce off each other.

• When an object applies a force on another object, the second object applies a force of the same strength in the opposite direction.

• The path an object travels around another object.

What is the definition of gravity?

• The path an object travels around another object.

• An attractive force that exists between all objects that have mass.

• A region of space that has a physical quantity at every point.

• The force that pushes perpendicular to the object's surface.

What is an orbit?

• The gravitational force exerted on an object.

• A measure of the amount of matter in an object.

• The path an object travels around another object.

• When colliding objects bounce off each other.