The study of heat and its transformation to mechanical energy. Heat/pressure/temperature/density
Thermodynamics
Part of physics that studies low temperature phenomena
Cryogenics
Part of physics that studies straight line motion, vertical motion or horizontal motion
Linear Motion
Part of physics that studies the properties of sound
Acoustics
The speed of an object and its direction of motion. A vector quantity.
Velocity
How fast something moves. The distance an object moves divided by the time it takes. A scalar quantity.
Speed
Quantity in physics, such as mass, volume and time, that can be completely specified by its magnitude and has no direction.
Scalar
Quantity in physics that has moth magnitude and direction. Example are force, velocity, acceleration, torque.
Vector
The part of physics that studies, light, characteristics of light frequencies, and behaviors of light.
Optics
The part of physics that studies the 4th state of matter of +100,000 degrees C, and ionized gases.
Plasma Physics
A rate at which an object’s velocity changes with time. This is a vector measurement.
Acceleration
A part of physics, under the section of mechanics, the science of describing the motion of objects using words, diagrams, #’s, graphs, and equations.
Kinematics
The science of matter, and energy, and the interactions between the two.
Physics
The part of physics that studies motions of objects.
Mechanics
triangle, mathematical symbol that means “change in”
Delta
Vector direction used to represent motion towards the door in class, left, and motion moving down.
Negative
-9.8m/s^2 An acceleration that pulls object in freefall in the downward direction towards the center of the earth.
Gravity
Vector direction used to represent motion towards the window in class, right, and moving up.
Positive
