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| show | hypothesis, prediction, experimental outcome
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| show | close aggreement between observers with a series of observations of the same phenomenon
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| Hypothesis | show 🗑
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| Law | show 🗑
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| show | sythesis that is well-tested and verified hypothesis about certain espects of natural world
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| Force | show 🗑
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| Net Force | show 🗑
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| vector | show 🗑
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| Vector Quanity | show 🗑
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| show | can be described with magnitude only
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| Mechanical Equilibrium | show 🗑
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| Equilibrium Rule | show 🗑
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| show | upward force that balances weight of object on a surface
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| Resultant | show 🗑
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| show | acts between materials that touch as they move past each other
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| show | property of a body to resist change in a state of motion
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| Newton's First Law (Law of Inertia) | show 🗑
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| Kilograms | show 🗑
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| show | quanity of matter in an object
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| show | force of gravity on an object
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| Newton | show 🗑
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| Relative | show 🗑
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| Speed | show 🗑
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| show | spread of an object at any instant in time
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| Average Speed | show 🗑
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| show | speed in any given direction
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| Accerleration | show 🗑
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| Free Fall | show 🗑
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| Elapsed Time | show 🗑
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| show | two vectors at right anges that add up to a given vector
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| Resolution | show 🗑
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| Projectile | show 🗑
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| show | two values change in opposite directions
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| show | describes relationship among an object's mass, and object's acceleration, and the net force on the object
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| Fluid | show 🗑
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| Air Resistance | show 🗑
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| show | showing all the forces acting on an object
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| show | amount of force per unit of area
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| show | newtons per square meter that measure pressure
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| show | speed at which the acceleration of a falling object is zero because friction balances the weight
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| Terminal Velocity | show 🗑
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| show | when objects present action upon each other
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| show | whenever one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first object
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| Action Force | show 🗑
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| Reaction Force | show 🗑
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| show | inertia in motion
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| Impulse | show 🗑
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| show | in the absence of an external force, momentum of a system remains unchanged
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| show | when objects collide without deforming or gernerating heat
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| show | collison in which colliding objects become distorted and generate heat
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| show | th product of the net force on an object and the distance throught which the object is moved
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| show | unit of work
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| show | rate at which work is done
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| Watt | show 🗑
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| show | property of an object or sytem that enables it to do work
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| Mechanical Energy | show 🗑
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| Potential Energy | show 🗑
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| Kinetic Energy | show 🗑
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| show | relationship between work and energy
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| Law of Conservation of Energy | show 🗑
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| show | device used to multiply forces or simply to change direction of forces
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| show | simple machine made of a bar that turns about a fixed point
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| Fulcrum | show 🗑
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| show | the ration of output force to input force for a machine
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| Pulley | show 🗑
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| show | ratio of useful energy output to total energy input
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| show | hydrogen and oxygen gas are compressed at electrodes to produce water and electric current
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| show | repeating, back-and-forth motion about an equilibrium position
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| Wave | show 🗑
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| Period | show 🗑
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| show | back-and-forth vibratory motion of a pendulum
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| Sine Curve | show 🗑
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| Crest | show 🗑
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| Trough | show 🗑
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| show | distance from midpoint to a crest in a wave
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| show | distance from crest to crest
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| Frequency | show 🗑
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| Transverse Wave | show 🗑
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| Longitudinal Wave | show 🗑
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| Interference pattern | show 🗑
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| show | crest of one wave overlaps the crest of another and their individual effects add together
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| show | crest of one wave overlaps the crest of another and their individual effects are reduced
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| show | crests of one wave overlap troughs of another to produce regions of zero amplitude
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| show | crests of one wave overlap the crests of the other and the troughs overlap as well
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| show | wave that appears to stay in one place, or doesn't sem to move throught the medium
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| show | the stationary points of a standing wave
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| show | positions on a standing wave with the largest amplitudes are known
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| show | apparent change in frequency due to the motinon of the source
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| show | an increase in frequency
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| Red Shift | show 🗑
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| Bow Wave | show 🗑
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| Shock Wave | show 🗑
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| show | sharp crack heard when the shock wave that sweeps behind a supersonic aircraft reaches the listeners
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| Pitch | show 🗑
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| Infrasonic | show 🗑
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| Ultrasonic | show 🗑
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| Conpression | show 🗑
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| show | region of the wave that is spread apart
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| show | object vibrates when it is disturbed
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| show | object is made to vibrate by another vibrating object that is nearby
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| Resonance | show 🗑
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| Photon | show 🗑
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| show | distance light travels in one year
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| show | energy traveling in waves that is partly electric and partly magnetic
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| show | range of electromagnetic waves
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| show | frequencies lower than the red of visible ligh
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| show | heat lamps give these off, frequencies higher than violet (sunburn)
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| show | materials that transmit ligh
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| show | materials that block light
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| Ray | show 🗑
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| show | region formed where light can not reach
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| show | partial shadow where light from a different angle is overlapping the region of shadow
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