FORCES AND MOTION
BY:MAKAYLA HARMAN
This website is all about forces and motion. Each page has its own, unique topic. As you explore the site you will learn about different aspects of forces and motion such as the laws of motion, physics, and aerodynamics. However, before you get started, let's start will some fundamentals.
First, you will need to know what matter is. Matter is anything that has mass and volume. This includes almost everything in our universe. Solids, like a table or person, liquids, like water or soda, and gases, like oxygen and carbon dioxide, are all matter. There is matter everywhere in the universe, except for maybe outer space, but even outer space isn’t completely empty of matter.
Second, you should know the law of the conservation of energy. Although it does not make a large appearance on this website, it is an important rule related to the subject that should be known. The law of the conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed. This means that the universe has the same amount of energy as it had one second ago and the same amount of energy it had billions of years ago and will have the same amount of energy one second from now and billions of years from now. The amount of energy in the universe, will not, does not, and cannot change. However, how that energy presents itself can, and will be inclined to, change.
Well, now that we have some basics out of the way, click on one of the pages at the top and continue exploring forces and motion!
Sources:
Boundless. “Boundless Physics.” Lumen, Open SUNY Textbooks, courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-physics/chapter/the-basics-of-physics/.
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Dunbar, Brian. “What Is Aerodynamics?” NASA, NASA, 27 May 2015, www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-aerodynamics-58.html.
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​Hitchcock, Susan, editor. Science of Everything: How Things Work in Our World. National Geographic, 2013.
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