TAKS Objective 5
Vocabulary useful to TAKS 5 review!!
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- Power
- The rate at which energy is transferred
- Resonance
- The increase in the amplitude of vibration that occurs when external vibrations match the objects frequency
- Energy transformation
- A change from one form of energy to another such as electrical to thermal
- Parallel circuit
- A circuit with several current paths whose total current equals the sum of the currents in its branches
- Inertia
- The tendency of an object to resist change in motion
- Law of conservation of energy
- The energy in a closed system is constant
- Newton's 1st Law
- A force is required to change the velocity of an object
- Acceleration
- The rate of change in speed
- Wavelength
- The shortest distance between pints where the wave pattern repeats itself
- Conduction
- The process that transfers kinetic energy when particles collide
- Frequency
- In periodic motion the number of complete oscillations
- Refraction
- The bending of light as the light passes into a new medium
- Radiation
- The transfer of energy by waves
- Force
- A push or pull exerted on an object
- Series circuit
- A circuit in which current passes through each device one after the other
- Standing wave
- A wave with stationary nodes and antinodes
- Newton's 2nd Law
- Acceleration equals the net force on the object divided by its mass
- Work
- The process of changing the energy of a system by means of forces
- Interference
- The interaction between waves that meet
- Period
- In periodic motion the time needed to repeat a complete cycle
- Heat
- Energy transferred between objects with a temperature difference
- Amplitude
- The maximum distance an object moves from equilibrium in any periodic motion
- Convection
- The transfer of heat by means of motion in a fluid
- Newton's 3rd Law
- All forces come in pairs that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction
- Momentum
- A property of any moving object, the product of the mass and velocity
- Speed
- Rate of change in the position of an object