Kinematics and Dynamics
Momentum and Energy
Waves
Electricity and Magnetism
Modern Physics
100
A quantity that includes magnitude and direction.
What is a vector?
100
Energy that something has due to its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
100
The rate at which a repeating event occurs.
What is frequency?
100
The process of charging an electroscope by touching it with a charged object.
What is conduction?
100
A particle of light.
What is photon?
200
The rate of change of velocity.
What is acceleration?
200
A quantity that represents how much force is required to stretch or compress a spring.
What is spring constant?
200
The bending of a wave as it passes from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
200
The rate at which charge flows in a circuit.
What is current?
200
The energy equivalent of one universal mass unit.
What is 931 MeV
300
The property of a matter that resists a change of motion.
What is inertia?
300
The cause of a change in momentum.
What is impulse?
300
The type of mechanical wave in which the particles of the medium move parallel to direction of the motion of the wave.
What is longitudinal?
300
The pole toward which all magnetic field lines point.
What is south?
300
Fundamental particles that do not combine to form larger particles.
What are leptons?
400
A force that resists motion.
What is friction?
400
The product of an object’s mass and velocity.
What is momentum?
400
3 x 10^8 m/s
What is the speed of light?
400
The quantity that is the same for all components of a parallel circuit.
What is potential difference?
400
The force that is responsible for binding quarks together to form hadrons.
What is the strong nuclear force?
500
A force that is directed toward the center of the circular path of an object’s motion.
What is centripetal force?
500
The principle that the total energy of a closed system remains constant.
What is conservation of energy?
500
The spreading out of a wave beyond a barrier.
What is diffraction?
500
The phenomenon caused by the motion of charged particles.
What is magnetism?
500
The charge of a Cascade B particle, having quark composition usb.
What is 0?