Define the following terms
a. Velocity
b. Oscillatory motion
c. Density
d. Relative density
e. Weight
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Answer:
The velocity of an object is the rate of change of its position with respect to a frame of reference, and is a function of tim
Answer:
a.Velocity is the speed at which something moves in a particular directions.
b.oscillary motion is a motion in which the substance moves in such a way that it comes to and goes from the fixed point periodically.
c.the relation of the weight of a substance to its size.
d.the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a standard, usually water for a liquid or solid, and air for a gas.
e.Weight, gravitational force of attraction on an object, caused by the presence of a massive second object, such as the Earth or Moon. Weight is a consequence of the universal law of gravitation: any two objects, because of their masses, attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Thus more massive objects, of course, weigh more in the same location; the farther an object is from the Earth, the smaller is its weight. The weight of an object at the Earth’s South Pole is slightly more than its weight at the Equator because the polar radius of the Earth is slightly less than the equatorial radius. Though the mass of an object remains constant, its weight varies according to its location. The smaller mass and radius of the Moon compared with those of the Earth combine to make the same object on the Moon’s surface weigh one-sixth the value of its weight on Earth.
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