Vocabulary
When the only force acting on an object is gravity
What is free fall?
In a standing wave, the points of maximum amplitude
What are antinodes?
Force
What are Newtons?
Energy of motion
What is Kinetic?
The four types of friction
What are rolling, sliding, static, and fluid?
What is power?
Waves that require a medium
What is mechanical?
Energy
What are Joules?
Gravitational and elastic are types of it
What is potential?
For every action, there is
What is an equal and opposite reaction? (Newton's Third Law)
The movement of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object
A wave that propogates in the same direction as the applied force; a wave that consists of condensed vibrations and relaxed vibrations
What is a longitudinal wave aka compression wave?
Work
What are Joules?
Kinetic + potential
What is mechanical?
a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy
What is an electric motor?
An object that orbits another object
What is a satellite?
What is frequency?
Power
What are Watts?
Occurs on the surface of the sun and in some types of power plants
What is nuclear?
third prong in an outlet, insulating clothing, fuse, circuit breaker
What are safety features when using electricity?
The amount of energy required to raise 1 kg of a substance 1 degree Kelvin (or 1 degree Celsius)
What is specific heat?
A wave transfers this from one location to another
Resistance
radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma are types of it
What is electromagnetic?
Freezing and boiling points of water in all three temperature scales
What are...
Fahrenheit - 32 and 212
Celsius - 0 and 100
Kelvin - 273 and 373