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What is force?
I am a push or a pull.
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What is True?
Newton was a teacher at one time in his life.
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What is the number of laws that Newton created?
3
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What is motion?
This is a change in position.
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Who is Issac Newton?
Name of scientist (first and last name) who created the Laws of Motion.
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What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
An object at rest stays at rest OR an object in motion, stays in motion, unless acted upon by an unequal force.
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What is gravity?
This is a force that pulls objects toward the center of the earth.
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What is the telescope?
An object that Newton developed with a mirror.
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What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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What is friction?
I am a force that works against the motion of two surfaces that are touching.
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What is Principia?
The text that Newton published his ideas about the laws in.
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What is Newton's Second Law of Motion?
The speed of an object depends on the mass of the object and the size of force acting upon it.
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What is air resistance?
This is another kind of friction that works against the motion of objects traveling through the air.
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What are scientific experiments?
This is how scientists formulate theories after finding data.
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What is sunlight?
Newton discovered that this could be separated into colors.
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