Vocab
The study of the fundamental laws of nature.
What is physics?
The systematic approach scientists use to learn about the laws of nature.
What is the scientific method?
The base unit of time.
What is a second?
This would be your answer if you were to round 234.389 to the nearest hundred.
What is 200?
Quantities that consist of both a numerical value with a unit and a direction.
What is a vector?
The amount of steps in the scientific method.
What is four or five?
This prefix has a power of 103 and means 1000.
What is kilo?
A quantity which is measured as distance (or length) divided by a time.
What is speed?
The variable you change in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The last step in the scientific method.
What is conclude?
This is the abbreviation for the prefix centi-.
What is c?
This expresses a value as a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by an appropriate power of 10. (For example: 3.5 x 102)
What is scientific notation?
Refers to a relationship in which one quantity gets larger as the other gets smaller.
What is an inverse relationship?
The starting point of any scientific investigation.
What is observation?
The base units of meters (m), kilogram (kg), and seconds (s).
What are SI Units?
The operations for which the number of sig figs in the answer is the same as the number of sig figs in the least accurately known input value.
What are multiplication and division?
A measure of how close together the values of a series of measurements are to one another.
What is precision?
A detailed scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be verified or rejected by careful experiments.
What is a hypothesis?
These are used to designate common multiples in powers of 10.
What are prefixes?
The operations for which the number of decimal places in a result is equal to the smallest number of decimal places in any of the input values.
What are addition and subtraction?