Chapters 1-4
Amount of matter space takes up
What is volume?
Energy of Motion
What is kinetic energy?
Device used for communicating long distances using electromagnets
What is a telegraph?
Branch of science dealing with the behavior and motion of electrons in a vacuum or special materials
What is electronics?
The most commonly accepted idea of the origin of the universe
What is the big bang theory?
Grams or kilograms
What is the SI unit of mass?
Transfer of heat by direct contact
What is conduction?
Device producing an electric current using electromagnetic induction
What is a generator?
Brain of the computer
What is the CPU?
A random change in DNA
What is a mutation?
Mass times Velocity
What is momentum?
Bundles or packets of light energy
What are photons?
What is a capacitor?
Single chip containing an entire CPU
What is a microprocessor?
Substances composed of more than one type of atom, especially elements
What are compounds?
Volume and temperature are directly proportional
What is Charles's Law?
Disorder in a system
What is entropy?
This states that unlike poles repel and like poles attract
What is the law of magnetic poles?
Material used in a wafer to manufacture integrated circuits
What is silicon?
A type of mixture in which the molecules are not completely mixed together
What is heterogeneous?
Buoyant force experienced by an object = the weight of the fluid displaced
What is Archimedes' principle?
The change in sound frequency caused by an object's motion
What is the Doppler effect?
A simple device for detecting electric charges
What is an electroscope?
Device that converts digital data into analog
What is a modem?
The splitting of an atomic nucleus
What is nuclear fission?