Laws
A law for gases but only if they are not near their condensation point.
What is the Ideal Gas Law?
Waves travel through this.
What is a medium?
Amplitude for light.
What is brightness?
A measure of the compactness of a material.
What is density?
A flow of charge.
What is current?
Kinematics equations can only be used with a _____ ______.
What is constant acceleration?
An object is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of displaced fluid.
What is Archimedes Principle?
_______ is the distance between two identical points on a wave.
What is wavelength?
Amplitude for sound.
What is loudness?
Pressure increases with this in a liquid.
What is depth?
The number of complete oscillations per second.
What is frequency?
Conservative forces have an associated _____ _____.
What is potential energy?
As Pressure increases Volume decreases.
What is Boyle's Law?
Waves with crests and troughs.
What is a transverse wave?
Frequencies that humans hear.
What is 20-20,000 Hz?
As altitude increases, atmospheric _____ and _____ decreases.
What is pressure and density?
The time it takes for a wave to move one wavelength.
What is period?
Constant electric fields produce constant electric forces which produce ___ ____.
What are constant accelerations?
When velocity increases internal pressure decreases.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
The _________ is the high part of a transverse wave and the _________ is the low part of a transverse wave
What is crest and trough?
Electromagnetic waves of the highest frequency and shortest wavelength.
What are gamma rays?
This comes from the difference in pressure between the top and bottom of a submerged object.
What is Buoyant Force?
Imparts a potential energy to a charge placed in an electric field.
What is the potential difference or voltage?
A mechanism of heat flow in which contact is required.
What is conduction?
Charges attract or repel according to their size and sign.
What is Coulomb's Law?
Waves with compressions and rarefactions.
What are longitudinal waves?
Sound waves below 20 Hz in frequency.
What are infrasonic waves?
When two boat pass too close, they will be pushed ____ by a force.
What is together?
Two charges placed closely of equal amount but opposite sign.
What is a dipole?
Steam cools your coffee through this heat flow mechanism.
What is evaporation?
A system at rest rotationally and translationally derives a change in thermal energy due to heat and work.
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
Waves are classified according to where they travel into _______ waves and _______ waves.
What are Mechanical and Electromagnetic?
The sky is blue because of this.
What is atmospheric scattering?
Gases in the blood bubble as they come out of solution when a diver rises to the surface too fast.
What are the bends?
The change in speed and direction of a wave when it enters a new medium.
What is refraction?
Electrons gain _______ when they move in the direction of the electric field.
What is potential energy?
The transfer mechanisms in the conservation of energy.
What are heat, work, EM waves, mechanical waves, matter, and electricity?
UVB is responsible for ____ DNA damage and ____ while UVA is responsible for _____ DNA damage and ____ _____.
What is direct, burns, indirect, free radicals?
The primary colors for sunlight correspond to which color receptors in the retina?
What are red, blue and green cone cells?
A ship floating in the Dead Sea (very salty) would have a Buoyant Force ____ to that of a ship floating in Lake Martin. (Presume the same ship).
What is equal to? (Floating means the Buoyant Force equals the weight).
Plaqued arteries collapse and cause a cessation of blood flow because the diameter is _______, the blood flow speed is _______, and the pressure is not enough to keep the artery inflated.
What is smaller and faster?
Work and heat were shown to be two manifestations of the same phenomenon of ______ by _________.
What is energy and James Joule?