Miscellaneous
Forces
Fields
Fields 2
Terms
100
The law that states energy is never created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another.
Who is the law of Conservation of Energy?
100
This force causes objects to fall towards the center of the Earth at an acceleration of 9.8m/s2.
What is the gravitational force?
100
A field caused by a magnet or current carrying wire.
What is a magnetic field?
100
What is a gravitational field?
100
A push or a pull
What is a force?
200
The four fundamental forces can also be referred to as this.
What are the fundamental interactions?
200
When a student rubs a neutral balloon with a cloth on a cool, dry day. The balloon gains electrons which means that the balloon has which charge?
What is negative charge?
200
A field around any charged object.
What is an electric field?
200
Opposite charges and poles do this.
What is attract?
200
One end of a magnet, identified as either north or south
What is a pole?
300
According to Einstein, the force of gravity curves these around a large object.
What are objects with mass and electromagnetic radiation?
300
Beta decay is a nuclear reaction in the nucleus of an atom when a neutron spontaneously converts into ____________, ____________, and _____________
What are a proton, an electron, and a neutrino?
300
A field around any object possessing mass.
What is gravitational field?
300
Would you weigh more or less on Jupiter?
What is more?
300
the physical field that surrounds electrically charged particles
What is an electric field?
400
The general theory of relativity.
What is Albert Einstein’s theory that explains gravity in terms of acceleration, and as the curvature of spacetime around a massive object?
400
The four forces from weakest to strongest.
What are gravitational, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and strong nuclear forces?
400
A gravitational field is formed by the _____________ of _________________ around a large object.
What are curvature and spacetime?
400
What is a magnetic field around a bar magnet?
400
A magnet that is created when a wire is coiled and an electric current flows through it
What is an electromagnet?
500
Ampere's Law
What is an electric current flowing in a wire creates a magnetic field around the wire?
500
The law that describes how the effect of a field changes as an object moves closer or farther from the field.
What is the inverse square law?
500
The difference between mass and weight.
What is mass is how much matter is in and object and weight includes gravitational force?
500
What is a magnetic field around a current carrying wire?
500
the force of attraction that exists between any two or more masses
What is gravity?