Types of Forces
What is the force that causes objects to fall?
What is gravity?
What is the type of wave that requires a medium to travel through?
What is a mechanical wave?
What is the simplest type of motion?
What is translational motion?
What is the fundamental particle that has a negative charge?
What is an electron?
What is the type of field that surrounds all objects with a mass and exerts an attractive force on other objects with a mass?
What is the gravitational field?
What is the name of the force exerted when an object is at rest on a surface?
What is normal force?
What type of mechanical wave do the particles move parallel to the direction of an energy transfer?
What is a longitudinal wave?
What type of motion occurs when an object moves around a fixed axis?
What is rotational motion?
What is the fundamental particle that has a positive charge?
What is a proton?
What type of field surrounds any electric charge and exerts a force on other electric charges?
What is an electric field?
What is the type of force that opposes two objects or surfaces to make contact?
What is friction?
What type of waves do not require a medium to travel through?
What is an electromagnetic wave?
What type of motion is used to describe the motion of a disturbance through a medium?
What is wave motion?
What is the fundamental particle that has a neutral charge?
What is a neutron?
What type of field is made by the movement of electric charges?
What is a magnetic field?
What is the fundamental force that acts over an infinite range?
What is the electromagnetic force?
What type of mechanical wave do the particles move perpendicular to the direction of an energy transfer?
What is a transverse wave?
What type of motion is used to describe the motion of an object that was thrown or projected into the air?
What is projectile motion?
What term describes an atom that has either lost or gained electrons?
What is an ion?
What is the field that is used for the movement of vectors within a space?
What force is responsible for holding the nucleus of an atom together?
What is the strong nuclear force?
What is a type of wave that has both particle and wave-like properties?
What is a matter wave?
What type of periodic motion occurs when a reoccurring force is directly proportional to the displacement from equilibrium?
What is simple harmonic motion?
What type of atom has a full outer shell of electrons, making it unreactive?
What is a noble gas atom?
What type of field is associated with fundamental particles?
What is a quantum field?