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Name __________________________

Per ______ Date _________________

Important Physics Vocabulary


Write the letter of the matching term on the blank to the left of the matching definition.

___U_ 1. Speed together with the direction of motion. A. Acceleration


___A_ 2. The rate at which
the velocity is changing. B. Current
__T__ 3. An arrow whose
length represents the magnitude of a quantity C. Energy
And the direction represents the direction of the quantity. D. Equilibrium
___M_ 4. The resistance of
any body to change its state of motion. E. Field
__G__ 5.Any influence that tends to accelerate an object. F. Fluid
___H_ 6. The force that acts to resist the relative motion of objects or
G. Force
materials which are in contact. H. Friction
__O__ 7.The product of the mass and the velocity of an object. I. Gravity
_____ 8. The property of an object or a system that enables it to do work J. Half-Life
while being a conserved quantity. K. Heat
__I__ 9. The acceleration exerted on a mass near a planet. L. Impulse
__E__ 10. That which exists in the space surrounding a mass, or electric charge, M.
Inertia
or magnet, so that another one introduced into this region will N.
Magnetism
experience a force. O. Momentum
__F__ 11. Anything that flows, like a liquid or a gas. P. Pressure
___P_ 12. Force per surface area where the force is normal to the surface. Q. Quantum
__S__ 13. The property of material that tells how warm or cold it is relative R. Refraction
to some standard and is related to the average kinetic energy of S.
Temperature
randomly moving molecules. T. Vector
_____ 14. Energy transfer, via random molecular collisions or radiation, U. Velocity
Resulting in a gain or loss of internal energy. V. Vibration
___D_ 15. A state of balance W. Waves
___W_ 16. A disturbance that repeats regularly in space and time and that is
transmitted progressively from one place to next with no actual transport of
matter.
__V__ 17. An oscillation or repeating back-and-forth motion, about an
equilibrium position.
_____ 18. The rate of electrons flowing through resistive materials due To
a potential difference.
_____ 19. The field produced by materials carrying a current.
__Q__ 20. The fundamental unit or smallest amount of anything.

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