Greek
Often used to name an angle.
What is θ ?
This indicates magnitude.
What is scalar?
What is mechanics?
Average Speed
What is Total Distance/Total Time?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton?
Used to represent density.
What is ρ?
The sum of 2 vectors.
What is resultant vector?
What is friction force?
Converting Fahrenehit and Celsius
What is T(c)=5/9(T(f) -32)?
Described the resistance of every physical body to a change in velocity as inertia.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Used to represents the coefficient of friction.
What is μ?
A vector quantity from starting to end point.
What is displacement?
Force which an object resists movement.
What is force of static friction?
Average acceleration
What is V2-V1/t2-t1?
Assigned zero degrees for boiling point and 100 degrees for melting point.
Who is Anders Celsius?
Used to represent torque.
What is τ?
When the sum of the vector forces in a place equals zero.
What is equilibrium?
The perpendicular component of the distance from the point of rotation to the line of action of the force.
What is moment arm?
Force of kinetic friction
What is Fk = muk x Fn?
Contributed to the kinetic theory of matter after observing pollen in water to understand random motion of molecules
Who is Robert Brown?
What is kinema?
What is inertia?
A measure of an "ability to do work"
What is energy?
Average power
What is W/change in time?
Nobel prize-winning physicist who said that because the temperature of an object depends only on the average internal kinetic energy of the molecules of the object, this energy can be used as a definition of temperature.
Who is Richard Feynman?