Astronomy 161 - Winter 2008
Professor Terndrup

Lecture 5, 1/16/08
Newton's Physics
(Lecture #1)

Force and acceleration

Reading: Chapter 3, sections 3.3 through 3.5.

Vocabulary terms and key concepts:

Force, balanced forces, unbalanced forces
speed, velocity acceleration
mass
gravity
Newton's three laws of motion
universal gravitational constant
uniform circular motion

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