Matter
Characteristics that describe how one kind of matter is different from another.
Properties
One of the most important sources of energy for earth that comes from the sun
Electromagnetic Radiation
An accumulation of charge in one place
Static electricity
What the Conservation of Energy states
Energy is neither created nor destroyed, only changed in form
The source of the wave oscillates perpendicular to the direction of wave propogation is this type of wave.
Transverse wave
The smallest chemical unit of an element.
Atom
Energy that is stored somehow, but which can be released from storage and put to use
Potential Energy
The three ways that charges can accumulate
Induction, conduction, friction
What objects/substances have reached when they are all at the same temperature, and no heat is flowing between them.
Thermal equilibrium
Sound waves are an example of this type of wave.
Longitudinal wave
A subatomic particle in an atom with a positive charge
Proton
Heat energy that comes from the earth
Geothermal energy
The Christmas lights where the lights stay on even if one bulb burns out uses this type of circuit
Parallel
Thermal energy
With circular waves, an object floating in water moves in a circular motion down to this part of the wave, before moving back up to the crest.
trough
A substance characterized by being composed of atoms all possessing the same number of protons in the nucleus.
Element
Energy stored in the chemical bonds holding together the molecules.
Chemical potential energy
What causes reduced flow of electricity in a circuit
resistors
This is the transfer of heat through a material without the material itself moving. Occurs in solids, the solid most readily heated is metal
Conduction
What it's called when waves encounter corners or obstructions and bend and spread out as a result.
Diffraction
What is formed any time atoms of two or more different elements are chemically bonded together.
Compound
The nuclear process where atoms are split apart, creating energy
In a parallel circuit containing two branches (with one resistor on each branch), there is a total of 90 amps for the current. How many amps are on the branches?
45
The type of energy that is transformed from the chemical energy of gas in a car.
Kinetic
While most waves require a medium to travel through, this kind do not
Electromagnetic waves