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Mo8-L3a: What is Newton’s Second Law of Motion?

Key Concept SUMMARY
What is Newton’s Second Law of Motion?
What is Newton’s Second Law of Motion?
Unbalanced forces cause an object to speed
How does centripetal force affect circular motion? up, slow down, or change direction.

Newton’s second law of motion relates an
objects acceleration to its mass and the net
A satellite is an object that orbits a larger object. force on the object.

A satellite tends to move along a straight path
because of inertia.

Gravity is the centripetal force that keeps a satellite
in orbit by changing its direction.

Any motion in which an object is
moving along a curved path is
circular motion.

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