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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Circuit | Closed conducting loop through which and electric current can flow |
| conductor | Material, such as copper wire, in which electrons can move easily |
| Electric Current | the net movement of electric charges in a single direction measured in amperes |
| Insulator | material in which electrons and heat are not able to flow through easily |
| Parallel Circuit | circuit in which electric current has more than one path to follow |
| Series Circuit | circuit in which electric current has only one path to follow |
| Alternating current | electric current that reverses its direction of flow in a regular pattern. |
| Direct Current | electric currents 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 without 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 proportion to its volume at a constant temperature |
| Charles's Law | the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the temperature. |
| Pascal Principle | Pascal's law or the Principle of transmission of fluid-pressure states that "pressure exerted anywhere in a confined incompressible fluid is transmitted equally in all directions throughout the fluid such that the pressure ratio remains same. |
| 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 | buoyancy is an upward acting force, caused by fluid pressure, that opposes an object's weight. If the object is either less dense than the liquid |
| Kinetic Theory | explanation of the behavior of molecules in matter states that all matter is made of constantly moving particles that collide without losing energy |