Circuits
If a bulb breaks in this type of circuit, all the bulbs go out
What is series?
SI unit for heat
What is a Joule?
Name of the first successful test to detonate an atomic bomb
What is the Trinity Test?
The mechanical energy of a cat with 2 J of kinetic energy and 300 J of potential energy
What is 302 J?
Smallest subatomic particle
What is an electron?
This quantity tells you how bright a light bulb is
What is power?
This quantity is big for a material that is very difficult to heat up
What is specific heat?
Hydrogen bombs use energy from this process
What is nuclear fusion?
Energy transformation in an object that falls off your desk
What is potential to kinetic?
Chart that orders elements by the number of protons in their nuclei
What is the periodic table?
In this type of circuit, if you make the battery stronger, then the total current will increase
What is both series and parallel?
Thermal energy flows from a __________ object to a ___________ object
What are hotter and colder?
Many nuclear weapons were tested in the Pacific Islands, including this island nation that we watched a video about
What is the Marshall Islands?
Friction results in this energy transformation
What is kinetic to thermal?
When a neutron in an atom's nucleus emits an electron and turns into a proton
What is beta decay? (or beta emission)
The thing in a circuit that creates a magnetic field and makes a compass needle deflect
What is current?
Reaching thermal equilibrium takes __________ time if your objects are tiny than if they're huge
What is less?
Name for a process whose products are the same as the reactants and which can start the process all over again
What is a chain reaction? (or: a runaway reaction)
Thermal equilibrium is when two objects that are in contact with one another have this in common
What is temperature?
Charge is the imbalance between these
What are protons and electrons?
If you put a pencil in a circuit, it would act like this
What is a resistor?
In this unit for temperature, if the average kinetic energy of a substance's molecules are zero, then so is the temperature
What is Kelvin?
Scientist who realized that the atoms of nuclei can spontaneously emit radiation and who came up with the term "radioactivity"
Who is Marie Curie?
Energy transformation that occurs in a resistor
What is electric potential to thermal?
Elements as light as helium and as heavy as iron formed here
What is fusion in the core of stars?