All Things Physics | Energy | Forces of Nature | In the Spectrum | Elemental |
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What is an object at rests will stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force and objects in motion stay in motion at the same velocity and the same direction unless acted upon by some force?
Newtons' First Law of Motion
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What is stored energy or resting energy?
Potential Energy
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What are the three natural forces?
Gravitation, Electromagnetism, and Nuclear
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What is conversion of light to other forms of energy?
Absorption
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What is a positive proton, negative electron, and neutral neutron?
The parts of an atom and their charges.
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What is force x mass = acceleration
Newton's Second Law of Motion
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What is current?
Electrical charges in motion.
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What is nuclear force?
The force of attraction that holds the protons together.
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What is the passage of light through matter?
Transmission
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What is its atomic number?
The number of protons an atom has
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What is for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?
Newton's Third Law of Motion
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What is the law that energy is neither created nor destroyed, but can be transferred from one for?
The Law of Conservation of Energy
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What is nuclear force?
The strongest natural force.
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What is the bending of light?
Refraction
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What are elements?
Substances made up of atoms of a single type having the same number of protons.
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What is tendency of a moving object to keep moving and a stationary object to remain stationary unless acted upon by forces.
Inertia
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What are examples of electromagnetic radiation?
Radio Waves, Microwaves, Infrared Waves, Visible Light, Ultraviolet Waves, X-rays and Gamma Rays.
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What is energy?
The thing that is consumed when work is done.
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What is a device that bends light twice in the same direction, spreading out different wavelengths?
Prism
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What is the smallest stable form of matter?
Atom
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What is heat?
The thing that makes molecules vibrate and spread out.
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What is the force that surrounds every electrical charge that is in motion?
Magnetic Energy
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What is increase force over a short distance by applying a lesser force of a greater distance?
An example of what a simple machine can do.
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What is a substance that appears colored because it absorbs light of certain wavelengths leaving the remaining wavelengths to be reflected?
Pigment
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What are purpose, hypothesis, materials, procedure, results, and conclusion?
Steps in the Scientific Method
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