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20 vocab
Question | Answer |
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Circuit | closed conducting loop through which an 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, measure in amperes |
Insulator | material in which electrons are not able to move easily |
Parallel circuit | circuit in which electric current has more than one path to follow |
Series Circuit | |
Alternating Current | electric current that reverses its direction of flow in a regular pattern |
Direct Current | electric current 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 | If you decrease the volume of container of gas and hold the temperature constant, the pressure of the gas will increase. |
Charles's Law | The volume of a gas increases with increasing temperature, as long as pressure does not change |
Pascal Principle | pressure applied to a fluid is transmitted throughout the fluid. |
Bernoulli's Principle | As the velocity of a fluid increases, the pressure exerted by the fluid decreases. |
Archimedes Principle | the buoyant force on an object is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. |
Kinetic Theory | energy a moving object has because of its motion; depends on the mass and speed of the object |