Safety Terms
What if...?
Applied Physics
Physics Terms
100
The term used to describe the proper way to determine how a substance smells.
What is waft?
100
Should be done if an accident were to happen in a lab.
What is tell the teacher immediately?
100
The equation used to find the average velocity of a beaker that was knocked off of the table.
What is average velocity = ∆d/∆t
100
An object at rest remains at rest and an object in motion maintains its velocity unless it experiences an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's First Law?
200
Tool that should be used to pick up test tubes.
What are test tube tongs?
200
Where used chemicals should be disposed of at the end of a lab.
What is toxic waste container?
200
Acceleration of a test tube in free fall.
What is 9.8 m/s2?
200
Quantity describing both speed and direction.
What is velocity?
300
Protective eye wear that should be worn at all times.
What are goggles?
300
Should be used if chemicals enter the eye.
What is an eyewash?
300
The sign (positive/negative) of the focus of a concave lens.
What is negative?
300
The force between two objects in contact that opposes the motion of either object.
What is friction?
400
NIOSH stands for this.
What is National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health?
400
The proper way to unplug equipment.
What is pull from the plug (not from the cord)?
400
Equation used to find the heat energy being produced by the object on a hotplate.
What is Q=mC∆T?
400
The motion of a body when only the froce of gravity is acting on it.
What is free fall?