Physics terms
Any push or pull on an object
What is (a) force?
Allegedly, he ran through the streets of Syracuse after a bath upon discovering a principle of weight in water.
Who is Archimedes?
The attraction of molecules that are not the same.
What is adhesion?
The total absence of air or any other matter.
What is a vacuum?
The buoyant force acting on a body submerged in a liquid is equal to the weight of the liquid displaced by that body.
What is Archimedes' Principle?
The amount of force brought to bear on a unit area of surface
What is pressure?
Who is Blaise Pascal?
A liquid's resistance to flow because of molecular attraction.
What is viscosity?
Any object designed to create lift into the air.
What is an airfoil?
The pressure applied to any surface of a confined liquid is transmitted equally in every direction throughout the liquid.
Any substance that flows
Italian scientist who proposed the concept that there is an equal number of molecules (of gas) inside any container when temperature and pressure are constant.
Who is Amadeo Avogadro?
A liquid's resistance to increase its surface area.
What is Surface Tension?
Any device that transports air or that is driven by air pressure.
What is a pneumatic device?
Lateral pressure decreases as the rate of flow increases.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
The study of liquids at rest
What is hydrostatics?
Galileo Galilei initially doubted the "Horror Vacui" reason for how a water pump works; however, he died before completing his work. It was finished by this student of his.
Who is Evangelista Torricelli?
The pressure on any surface in contact with the moving liquid.
What is lateral pressure?
a simple device for transferring liquid from a higher container to a lower container.
What is a siphon?
The constant temperature of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure.
What is Boyle's Law?
Anything (a force, pressure, or gravity) that is applied perpendicular to a surface.
What is "normal"?
The first scientist to research the relationship between the volume and pressure of a gas
Who is Robert Boyle?
The production of tiny vapor bubbles within the liquid.
What is cavitation?
The pressure that will support a mercury column exactly 760 mm tall when the temperature is 0o Celsius.
What is standard atmospheric pressure?
At a given temperature and pressure, two gases of the same volume have the same number of molecules.
What is Avogadro's law?