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15 Cards in this Set
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Air Resistance
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Friction, or drag that acts on something moving through air
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Component
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One of the vectors often mutually perpendicular
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Gravitational Pull of Earth
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Holds on all objects to the surface of the earth
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Horizontal Component
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A motion parallel to the earth
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Projectile
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Any object that moves through the air or through space
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Range
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The horizontal distance traveled by a projectile
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Resolution
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The process of ... a vector into components
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Resultant
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The vector sum of two or more components
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Satellite
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An object that falls around earth or some other body rather than falling into it
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Scalar Quantity
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A quantity in physics
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Vector
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An arrow whose length represents the magnitude of a quantity
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Vector Quantity
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A quantity in physics such as force that has both magnitude and direction.
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Vertical Component
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Motion perpindicular to the earth
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Sine=
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opposite/ hyp. = y
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Cosine=
Tangent= |
Adjacent/ hyp.= x
Opposite/ adjacent |
