Newton's Laws

What law is best described by inertia?

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd

Object at rest stays at rest.

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd

Acceleration is due to a force put on an objects mass. 

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd

Pushing a child on a swing is easier than pushing an adult on the same swing, because the adult has more inertia.

• Newton's 1st Law
• Newton's 2nd Law
• Newton's 3rd Law

If a 10 kilogram object accelerates suddenly at 15 m/s^2, how much force was applied to the object?

• 150 Newtons
• 15 Newtons
• 150 kilograms
• 100 kilograms

Action/Reaction

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd

If an object was accelerating at 10 m/s^2, and a force of 10 newtons was required to accelerate it, what was the object's mass?

• 1 kilogram
• 10 kilograms
• 2 kilograms
• 5 kilograms

F = MxA

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd

A person not paying attention while skateboarding hits a rock. The skateboard stops...they don't.

• The Law of Inertia
• The Law of Acceleration
• The Law of Conservation of Momentum

Rockets are launched into space using jet propulsion where exhaust accelerates out from the rocket and the rocket accelerates in an opposite direction.

• The Law of Inertia
• The Law of Acceleration
• The Law of Conservation of Momentum