EPR3503 terms

Unit 1 - Science and scientific methods

Key Term Definition Link/Reference

1 Energy  the ability to do work  https://www.ducksters.com/science/energy.php
 It comes from
Thermal molecules of different
energy temperatures
2 interacting  https://www.ducksters.com/science/energy.php
Potential
3 energy energy that is stored  https://www.ducksters.com/science/energy.php
 energy that an object or
Kinetic
a particle has by reason
energy
4 of its motion  https://www.britannica.com/science/kinetic-energy
comes from atoms
Chemical
and molecules and
5 energy how they interact  https://www.ducksters.com/science/energy.php
 the movement of
Sound energy through
energy substances in  https://www.eschooltoday.com/energy/kinds-of-energy/what-is-
6 longitudinal waves sound-energy.html
energy is never
Law of
created or destroyed,
conservation
it is only changed from
7 of energy one state to another  https://www.ducksters.com/science/energy.php
 is the process to
Photosynthe harness energy from
sis sunlight and turn it into
8 chemical energy  https://www.livescience.com/51720-photosynthesis.html
a single complete act of
respiration
9 breathing  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/respiration
the distance between
1 wavelength two successive crests
0 or troughs of a wave  https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/definition/wavelength
 a usually reversible
Physical change in the physical
1 change properties of a
1 substance  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/physical-change
 a usually irreversible
chemical reaction
involving the
Chemical rearrangement of the
change atoms of one or more
substances and a change
1 in their chemical
2 properties  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/chemical-change
 the push or pull on an
object with mass that
1 A force causes it to change  https://www.thoughtco.com/force-definition-and-examples-
3 velocity science-3866337
1 Rolling  engineering frictional  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/rolling-friction
4 friction resistance to rotation or
energy losses in rolling
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bearings
 refers to the resistance
created by two objects
1 Sliding sliding against each  https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-sliding-
5 friction other friction.html
 friction that exists
between a stationary
1 Static friction object and the surface  https://study.com/academy/lesson/static-friction-definition-
6 on which it's resting formula-examples.html
unit of force. In physics
and engineering
documentation, the
1 term newton(s) is
7 A Newton usually abbreviated N.  https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/newton
 are two forces acting in
Balanced opposite directions on
1 force an object, and equal in
8 size  https://eschooltoday.com/science/forces/balanced-forces.html
two forces acting on an
Unbalanced
1 object are not equal in  https://eschooltoday.com/science/forces/unbalanced-
force
9 size. forces.html
 a form of energy that is
all around us and takes
Electromagn many forms, such as
etic radiation radio waves,
2 microwaves, X-rays and
0 gamma rays  https://www.livescience.com/38169-electromagnetism.html
 the entire range of
wavelengths or
frequencies of
Electromagn
electromagnetic
etic
radiation extending from
spectrum
gamma rays to the
2 longest radio waves and  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electromagnetic
1 including visible light %20spectrum
 An object at rest stays
at rest and an object in
motion stays in motion
Newton’s with the same speed
First Law and in the same
direction unless acted
2 upon by an unbalanced  https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/newtlaws/Lesson-
2 force 1/Newton-s-First-Law
 The rate of change of
Newton’s momentum of an object
2 Second Law is directly proportional
3 to the unbalanced force  https://youtu.be/ZvPrn3aBQG8
 For every action, there
Newton’s
2 is an equal and opposite  https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/newtlaws/Lesson-
Third Law
4 reaction 4/Newton-s-Third-Law
2 frequency The number of times  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/frequency
5 that a wave, is produced
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within a second
2 De-  the phase change from
6 sublimation gas directly to solid  https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-desublimation-605011
 the drops of water that
appear on cold windows
Condensatio
or other surfaces, as a
n
2 result of hot air or steam  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/condensatio
7 becoming cool n
2  the process of a liquid  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/evaporation?
Evaporation
8 changing to a gas q=Evaporation
 the change or process
of changing from a solid
Melting
2 substance to a liquid by
9 heat  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/melting
 the change or process
3 Freezing of changing from a liquid
0 to a solid substance  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/freezing
 that cannot be reduced
to smaller chemical
element parts and that has an
3 atom different from that
1 of any other substance  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/element
 an extremely small
piece of matter with a
Electron
3 negative electrical
2 charge  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/electron
3  a part of an atom that
Neutron
3 has no electrical charge  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/neutron
 a very small piece of
3 Proton matter with a positive
4 electrical charge  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/proton
When anything solid
3 Sublimation turns into a gas without
5 first becoming liquid https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/sublimation