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Areas Within Physics
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Key Terms
Physics Careers
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Simple Machines
Light
100
Its subjects include: Light
What is Optics?
100
Displacement (p. 41)
What is: (as an object moves from one position to another) The length of the straight line drawn from its initial position to the object's final position?
100
Occupation of the subject of the interview
What is: Science Writer?
100
Two inclined planes back to back
What is: Wedge?
100
Number of Primary Colors
What is 7?
200
Subject whose areas include: behavior of submicroscopic particles
What is Quantum mechanics?
200
Acceleration (p. 48)
What is: The quantity that describes the rate of change of velocity in a given time interval?
200
Name of the author AND the title of her book
What is: Janice VanCleave AND "Janice VanCleave's A+ Science Projects in Physics"?
200
True or False: Simple Machines have MANY moving parts
What is: False?
200
Type line in which light travels AND Speed at which light travels
What is: Straight Line? 300,000 Kilometers per second?
300
3 examples of Thermodynamics
What is: melting and freezing processes, engines, refrigerators?
300
Average Velocity
What is The displacement DIVIDED by the time interval during which the displacement occurred?
300
Number of books that are contained in her 'personal library'
What is: 1000?
300
True or False: Gears are a form of Inclined Planes
What is: False?
300
Which travels faster? Light or Sound?
What is Light?
400
Examples of this Physics area include: particle collisions, particle accelerators, nuclear energy
What is: Relativity?
400
Free Fall (p. 60)
What is: The motion of a body when only the force due to gravity is acting on the body?
400
Number of years she taught science AND number of new science books she writes per year.
What is 27 years teaching AND 3 new science books per year?
400
Number of things a pulley needs to do work. List them.
What is: 3 - Rope, chain or belt?
400
Word meaning: Places where light is blocked
What is Shadows?
500
Total number of Examples of each of the Areas in Physics
What is 23?
500
Coefficient of Friction
What is: the ratio of the magnitude of the force of friction between two objects in contact to the magnitude of the normal force with which the objects press against each other?
500
For 'students interested in science writing', list 1 small obstacle AND one big obstacle. AND, list the area in which one must be proficient in order to be a successful WRITER.
What is: Small Obstacle = Writing a book. Big Obstacle = Getting it published? AND: WRITING!!!!
500
This allows a screw to move when rotated. AND provide the name of the simple machine that is wrapped around the shaft or cylinder of a screw.
What is: an inclined plane? AND inclined plane? (Hint: it's the same answer!! If you got it, congrats!!)
500
2 examples of a Mirror AND List the necessary colors that make - Purple Yellow Cyan
What is: A Periscope and Car Headlight? And: Purple: Blue and Red Yellow: Red and Green Cayan: Blue and Green