Physics Lingo
Scale Up
Vectorious
Motion of the Ocean
Freeze Frame
100
A physical quantity that has a magnitude but no direction
What is a scalar?
100
Length in inches is this type of measurement quantity
What is scalar?
100
Velocity is this type of measurement quantity
What is vector?
100
Examples of these include softballs, footballs, and arrows when they are projected through the air
What are projectiles?
100
The crucial point when it comes to problems involving relative velocity
What is establishing the proper frame of reference?
200
A physical quantity that has both magnitude and direction
What is a vector?
200
The distance traveled by an object during a given time interval divided by the time interval
What is speed?
200
Any vector can be resolved into its component vectors by using these two functions
What are Sin and Cos functions?
200
The velocity of a projectile would not be constant if this was accounted for
What is air resistance?
200
A system that uses coordinates to uniquely determine the position of the points
What is a coordinate system?
300
A vector that represents the sum of two or more vectors
What is a resultant vector?
300
This is the result of multiplying or dividing vectors by scalars
What is a vector?
300
This 2 word 7 syllable method can be used to find the magnitude of a resultant vector
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
300
This is the path that projectiles follow
What is a parabolic trajectory?
300
A frame that is a physical concept related to state of motion
what is an observational frame?
400
The projections of a vector along the axes of a coordinate system
What are components of a vector?
400
A scalar quantity that is the difference between two different times
What is a time interval?
400
This function can be used to find the direction of a resultant vector
What is the inverse tangent function?
400
vx = vx,i = constant and ∆x = vx ∆t are equations that describe this
What is the horizontal motion of a projectile?
400
In different frames of reference these will differ
What are velocity measurements?
500
The motion that an object exhibits when thrown, launched, or otherwise projected near the surface of the Earth
What is projectile motion?
500
Electric charge, space-time interval, and invariant mass are examples of this type of scalar quantity
What is a relativistic scalar?
500
The name of the method used in which two or more vectors are added together graphically
What is the head-to-tail method?
500
vy,f = ay ∆t and vy,f2 = 2ay ∆y are equations that describe this
What is the vertical motion of a projectile that falls from rest?
500
These are frames for fictitious forces
What are non-inertial frames?