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Quarter 3 Vocab
Chapter 7, 8, 15, 16
Question | Answer |
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Circuit | Closed conducting loop through which an election current can flow. |
Conductor | Material, such as copper wire, in which eletrons can move easily. |
Electric Current | The net movement of electric charges in a single direction, measured in amperes. |
Insulator | Material in which electrons are not able to move easily. |
Parallel Circuit | Circuit in which electirc current has more than one path to follow. |
Series Circuit | Circuit in which electric current has only one path to follow. |
Alternating Current | Electrie current that reverses its direction of flow in a regular pattern. |
Direct Current | Electric current that flows in only one direction |
Chemical Change | Change of one substance into a new substance. |
Chemical Properties | Any characteristic of a substance, such as flammability, that indicates whether it can undergo a certain chemical change. |
Compound | Substance formed from two or more elements in which the exact combination and proportion of elements is always the same. |
Element | Substance with atoms that are all alike. |
Physical Change | Any change in size, shape, or state of matter in which the identity of the substance remains the same. |
Physical Properties | Any characteristic of a material, such as size or shape, that you can observe or attempt to observe with out changing the identity of the material. |
Boyle's Law | A law stating that the pressure of a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to its volume at a constant temperature. |
Charle's Law | Density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the temperature. |
Pascal Principle | A change in pressure at any point in an enclosed fluid at rest is transmitted undiminished to all points in the fluid. |
Bernoulli's Principle | The principle in hydrodynamics that an increase in the velocity of a stream of fluid results in a decrease in pressure. |
Archimedes Principle | in physics, buoyancy is an upward acting force, caused by fluid pressure, that opposes an object's weight. |
Kinetic Theory | Explanation of the behavior of molecules in matter; states that all matter is made of consstantly moving particles that collide without losing energy. |