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Physics vocabulary
Unit 2.0
Term | Definition |
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Meter | Measures gas, water, miles,time. Big as a guitar. |
Kilometer | Distance equal to 1000 meters. Big as a bridge. |
Centimeter | One 100th of a meter, about the size of your finger-nail. |
Gram | Metric unit of mass, weight of a dollar. |
Kilogram | Weight of a water bottle, bag of rice. |
Millimeter | Size of the side of a dime or credit card. |
Accuracy | Quality of being correct. |
Mass | The quantity of matter from Newton's second law of motion. |
Volume | A mass or quantity, especially a large quantity of something |
Precision | Accuracy, and exactness |
Density | Mass per unit volume, compactness |
Independent variable | A variable that is intentialy changed to observe its effect on the dependent variable. |
Dependent variable | Changes when the independent variable is changed. |
Controlled variable | An experiment to trial that uses controls usually separating them into groups. |