The Nature of Science
Motion commotion
Newton: Not just a figgy treat.
Energy
Hang ten!
100
This is defined as "the way things really are."
What is truth?
100
The metric unit for force.
What is the Newton?
100
The formula F=m(a) sums up this law.
What is Newtons second law of motion?
100
Defined as the capacity to do work.
What is energy?
100
Sound is this kind of wave.
What is longitudinal?
200
This is a proposition supported by a great deal of evidence.
What is a scientific fact?
200
The metric unit for work.
What is the joule?
200
This will cause a change in velocity on an object.
What is an unbalanced force?
200
The law of conservation of energy.
What is energy cannot be created nor destroyed but it can change form?
200
Relationship between wavelength and frequency.
What is an inverse relationship?
300
It is another name for "theory".
What is a model?
300
.00570 Has three of them.
What are significant digits?
300
This equals your mass times the acceleration of gravity
What is weight?
300
The amount of this kind of energy equals mc2.
What is nuclear energy?
300
When white light separates into its individual parts.
What is dispersion?
400
This is generated by a theory and will lead to an experiment to verify it.
What is a hypothesis?
400
Label for acceleration.
What is m/s2?
400
What this symbol means:
What is change in?
400
The ultimate source of energy for life on earth.
What is the sun?
400
Musical instruments capitalize on this kind of wave.
What is a standing wave?
500
This is the variable you manipulate in an experiment.
What is an explanatory or independent variable?
500
Proposed epicycles to explain retrograde motion.
Who is Ptolemy?
500
Term that means an object's resistance to a change in its motion.
What is inertia?
500
When energy changes form some is lost in the form of this.
What is heat?
500
What a wave peak meets a wave trough it results in this.
What is destructive interference?