Wk. 1
Definition of fossil fuels.
What are fuels that are formed from the fossilized remains of plants or animals.
An example of a pendulum.
What is a Swing?
What is a grandfather clock?
It flows from hot objects to cooler ones.
What is heat energy?
A force that needs two or more objects touching each other.
What is contact force?
Invented the lightbulb?
Who is Thomas Edison?
Examples of fossil fuels.
Marble Experiment Proved
Thermal Capacities.
What is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of an object by one Kelvin?
The extension of a material is proportional to the force stretching it, as long as it is not stretched beyond its elastic limit.
What is Hooke's law?
Created 3 Laws of Motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Law of Conservation of Energy
What is energy can never be created or destroyed?
Fiber that wouldn't burn up inside of the bulb
What caused Thomas Edison's first lightbulbs to fail?
Thermal equilibrium
What is when two objects reach the same level heat and energy?
When the forces acting on an object are all balanced and they cancel each other out.
What is equilibrium?
Invented the first battery.
Who is Alessandro Volta?
Define Kinetic Power
What is the energy of a moving object?
The lesson learned from 300 failures.
Their atoms release nuclear energy as radiation.
What are radioactive substances?
When two small nuclei combine to form a larger one.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
Invented the pendulum.
Who was Galileo?
Define Potential Energy
What is the energy that is stored in something and is ready to use.
Invented the first battery.
Who was Alessandro Volta?
A method of calculating the time that has passed since living matter died.
When the nucleus of an atom is bombarded with neutrons and the nucleus splits open.
What is nuclear fission?
Who is Robert Hooke?