Quarter 1
How fast something is moving
What is speed?
The momentum equation
What is p=mv?
Electromagnetic waves that we can see
What is light (visible light)?
Subatomic particles with a positive (+) charge
What are protons?
He created the periodic table.
The length of the path that an object has traveled
What is distance?
How much energy a moving object has
What is kinetic energy?
The wave equation
What is velocity equals wavelength times frequency?
Subatomic particles with a negative (-) charge
What are electrons?
As a moving object that is making a sound moves by, the pitch goes from high to low
What is the doppler effect?
The speed and direction that an object is moving
What is velocity?
Energy in the form of heat
When waves encounter a surface that they cannot pass through and bounce away from the surface
What is reflection?
A family on the periodic table in group 17; the most reactive elements on the periodic table
What are halogens?
How wide a wave is. From crest to crest.
What is wavelength?
The change in velocity of an object it can be speeding up or slowing down
What is acceleration?
Energy due to position
What is potential energy?
When two waves meet, and they combine and grow larger or cancel out to zero
What is interference?
A family on the periodic table; least reactive elements on the periodic table
What are noble gasses?
Electrons that every atom uses to bond to other atoms
What are valence electrons?
A visual representation of all the forces acting on an object
What is a free body diagram?
Potential energy equation
What is PE=mgh?
Anything of substance that a wave will travel through
Family on the periodic table; conductive of thermal and electrical energy
What are transition metals?
Fill in the blank: Your mass is the same no matter where you go in the universe; your ________, on the other hand, changes from place to place.
What is weight?