Oscillation
The type of force that restores an object to equilibrium in simple harmonic motion.
What is restoring force?
This is carried by a wave as it propagates.
What is energy?
It is the product of the magnitude of the electric field and the surface area perpendicular to the field.
What is electric flux?
It is the direction of the magnetic field of a current wire whose current is pointing upwards.
What is counterclockwise?
A well-designed experiment should always include this type of statement that predicts the outcome.
What is a hypothesis?
This is known as the quantity ω in the equation for simple harmonic motion.
What is angular frequency?
This is a type of wave that travels within some material (medium).
This law relates the net electric flux through a closed surface to the net charge enclosed by the surface.
What is Gauss's law?
It states that the line integral of the magnetic field along a closed loop is proportional to the total current enclosed by the loop.
What is Ampere's law?
It is the doubt or unsureness that exists regarding the result of the measurement.
What is uncertainty?
The equation x(t)=Acos(ωt+ϕ) describes this aspect of simple harmonic motion.
What is position function/position over time?
This quantity counts the number of number of wavelengths in a given distance along the propagation of the wave.
What is wave number?
It is the electric field inside a conductor.
What is zero?
It is a constant denoted by μ_0 and is the measure of magnetization produced in a material in response to an applied magnetic field.
What is permeability?
It is the smallest division of the measuring tool and sets the precision of the instrument.
What is resolution?
For a simple harmonic motion, this quantity is given by Aω.
What is maximum velocity?
Aside from satisfying the wave equation, a function must also have this characteristic to be considered a wave.
What is periodic?
It quantifies the amount of charge uniformly distributed in a line, an area, or a volume.
Symbolized by the letter J, this quantifies the number of current lines passing through an area.
What is current density?
In an experiment where light is shone on a wall, the measurement of the radius of the illumination on the wall as the distance of the light source is increased is considered this type of variable.
What is dependent variable?
The period of a mass-spring system is proportional to the square root of this ratio.
What is mass over spring (stiffness) constant?
The equation y(x, t)=Acos[(kx ± ωt)] describes this aspect of a wave.
What is wave propagation/wave function?
This describes how the electric field of a point charge varies with the distance of measurement (r) from the charge source.
What is inverse square?
It is the magnetic field outside a solenoid.
What is zero?
Also called one-sided error, it is the type of error in an experiment that can be identified and addressed. Examples of it would be offsets in measurement and limitations in theoretical approach.
What is systematic error?