The common name for a "center-seeking" force.
What is centripetal?
The SI unit for work.
What is a joule?
Linear momentum is _______ in all collision types.
What is conserved?
The rotational analog of force.
What is torque?
What is spring-mass (or simple pendulum)?
The mathematical relationship between centripetal acceleration and tangential velocity.
What is quadratic?
The foundational principle that says that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is conservation of energy?
A collision in which both linear momentum AND kinetic energy are conserved.
What is a perfectly elastic collision?
The distance from the axis of rotation to the point of interest on an object.
What is r (or moment arm)?
The point in a simple harmonic motion with the maximum velocity.
The specific force type that acts as the centripetal force in a planetary system.
What is the gravitational force?
The rate of energy production/consumption with respect to time.
What is power?
The unit of linear momentum.
What is kg m/s?
The rotational analog of mass (also a measure of an object's resistance to changes in rotation).
What is moment of inertia (or rotational inertia)?
The x value (in terms of A) where a simple harmonic system has equal amounts of kinetic and potential energy.
What is A/sqrt(2)?
The quantity with a value of 6.67 x 10^-11 Nm^2/kg^2.
What is the universal gravitational constant (big G)?
What is mechanical energy?
The collision type that increases system kinetic energy.
What is an explosion?
The types of energy present in a rolling object.
What are rotational kinetic and translational kinetic energy?
The one factor (besides gravitational field) that measurably affects the period of a simple pendulum.
What is string length?
The unit for gravitational field.
What is N/kg (or m/s/s)?
The quantity described by a kilowatt-hour.
What is energy?
The feature of a force vs time graph that is equal to impulse.
What is area under the curve?
The units for angular momentum.
What are kg m^2/s?
The phenomenon that occurs when harmonic systems behave unideally.
What is damping?