Mechanics
This is the tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion.
What is Inertia?
anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
On the macroscopic scale, this is the measure of how warm a substance is.
What is temperature?
What is a characteristic of a wave with high frequency?
What is a wave with high frequency has a short wavelength?
This happens when a car takes a curve at a constant speed.
What is the cars' velocity changes.
sound travels fastest through this state of matter
What is a solid?
The sparks emitted by a sparkler are very hot, but the sparks don't burn you because each spark has only a little bit of this to transfer to your hand.
What is thermal energy?
Sound is this type of wave.
What is a longitudinal wave?
You push on a wall with 40 Newtons to the right. At what force does the wall push on you?
What is 40 Newtons to the left?
The number that designates the identity of an element. Also, the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.
What is the atomic number?
Conduction usually involves collisions of this kind of subatomic particle.
What is the electron?
A change in frequency due to the motion of the source.
What is the Doppler effect?
What is the kinetic energy of a toy car with a mass of 8 kg that is moving at 5 m/s.
What is 100 Joules?
The principle that states than an immersed body is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
What is Archimedes Principle?
Because water undergoes an interesting kind of thermal expansion, as it freezes, it does this.
What is expands?
When the crest of one wave overlaps with the crest of another wave.
What is constructive interference?
How does the impulse of a car hitting a brick wall to slow to a stop compare with the impulse of the same car going the same speed hitting a gigantic airbag to slow to a stop.
What is the impulse is the same? The collision time and the impact force is different for the haystack compared to the airbag, but the Impulse or change in momentum is the same.
Under pressure a gases volume will ___ and its density will ___.
What is decrease and increase
This is the only kind of heat transfer which can occur in a vacuum.
What is radiation?
The response of a body when a forcing frequency matches its natural frequency.
What is resonance?