Vocabulary
What is the term for the capacity to do work or produce change?
What is energy?
In which type of wave do particles move parallel to the direction of the wave?
What are longitudinal waves?
What do we call the energy stored in the bonds of atoms and molecules?
What is chemical energy?
What do we call a property that can be observed without changing the identity of the substance?
What is a physical property?
What is the equation used to calculate wave speed?
What is Wave Speed = Frequency x Wavelength?
What do we call a disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space?
What is a wave?
What type of wave has particles that move perpendicularly to the direction of the wave?
What are transverse waves?
What type of energy is associated with the motion of an object?
What is kinetic energy?
What type of change occurs when one or more substances change into entirely new substances?
What is a chemical change?
If a wave has a frequency of 5 Hz and a wavelength of 2 m, what is its speed?
What is 10 m/s?
What is the term for any substance that a wave can travel through?
What is a medium?
What is the term for the height of a wave, which is related to the energy it carries?
What is amplitude?
What is the energy stored due to an object's position called?
What is potential energy?
What is the measure of the amount of mass in a given volume called?
What is density?
What is the equation for calculating mechanical energy?
What is Mechanical Energy = Potential Energy + Kinetic Energy?
Which type of waves require a medium to travel?
What are Mechanical Waves?
What is the amount of time between one wave and the next as it passes a specific location called?
What is the period?
What type of energy is produced when electrons move from one location to another?
What is electrical energy?
What is the gravitational pull on an object known as?
What is weight?
What is the formula for gravitational potential energy?
What is Potential Energy = mgh?
What is the distance between two consecutive crests or troughs of a wave called?
What is wavelength?
What is the frequency of a wave that has a wavelength of 2 m and a speed of 10 m/s?
What is 5 Hz?
What is the law that states energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be converted from one form to another?
What is the law of conservation of energy?
What are properties that are the same for any sample of a substance and do not depend on the amount called?
What are characteristic properties?
Calculate the kinetic energy of a car with a mass of 1000 kg moving at a speed of 20 m/s.
What is 200,000 J?