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| that you refer to or think of a given property in terms of another more familiar object...ie: Sky Blue |
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| process of comparing a property to a well-defined and agreed-upon referent |
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| What a well-defined and agreed-upon referent is referred to as. |
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| When standards are established, the referent is referred to as this |
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| Early referent units used by the ancient Greeks and then later by the English. It was based on Human Body Parts. |
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| established by the French Academy and was created based on reference in nature not Human Body Parts. |
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| Length, Mass, Time, and Charge |
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| Standard unit for length in the metric system. |
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| Standard unit for mass in the metric system. Kilo- means 1,000. |
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| Standard Unit for time in the Metric system. |
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| G; 1 Billion; 1,000,000,000 |
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| M; 1 Million times the Unit; 1,000,000 |
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| Metric Unit commonly used to measure liquid volume |
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| Used for smaller amounts of liquid Volume. |
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| Measurement information used to describe something. |
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how much space an object occupies. L(W)H [length times width times height]
V = tk k=constant |
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| the extent of a surface, L(W) [Length times Width] |
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| Relationship between two numbers |
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| the ratio of mass or weight of a substance per unit volume [p=density] p=mass/volume |
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| when two variables increase (or decrease) together in the same ratio |
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| when one variable increases, while the second variable decreases in the same ratio |
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| What's the formula for mass density? |
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| What is the formula for weight density? |
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| tendency of an object to remain in unchanging motion or at rest in the absence of an unbalanced force |
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| what's the formula for the average speed or magnitude of velocity? |
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| v (with a line over it) = distance/time |
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| what is the formula for acceleration? |
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(final velocity - initial velocity)/(time)
; a = (vf-vi)/time |
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| What is the formula for average velocity? |
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| average velocity = (final velocity + initial velocity)/(2); v[with a line over it] = (vf+vi)/(2) |
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| what is the formula for distance? |
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| distance = 1/2(acceleration)(time)^2; d = 1/2 at^2 when vi = 0 |
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