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Physical Property A
Question | Answer |
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What is accuracy? | The quality of being near the true value. |
What is a balance? | A piece of equipment used to measure mass. |
What does it mean to calibrate? | To mark off lines on measuring equipment for the desired unit. |
What is centimeter cubed? | cm3; a unit of volume derived from length times width times height compress_ to squeeze or press together |
What is gas? | A state of matter having indefinite volume, indefinite shape, with particles bouncing around and not touching each other . |
What is a graduated cylinder? | A piece of equipment used to measure liquid volume. |
What is a gram? | An SI unit to measure mass; 1g = 0.001kg; there are 1000g in 1 kilogram. |
What is a kilogram? | The SI base unit to measure mass; 1 kg = 1000g |
What is kinetic theory? | A physics theory that all matter is made of moving particles in random motion liquid_ a state of matter having definite volume, indefinite shape, with particles touching, and sliding around each other |
What is a liter? | The SI unit to measure volume of liquids |
What is mass? | The amount of matter (atoms) in a substance; measured in grams and kilograms matter_ anything that has mass and volume (takes up space) |
What is meniscus? | The curve on the upper surface of a liquid in a container caused by surface tension. |