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| a pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show the structure or workings or an object, system, or concept. |
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| a set of particles or interacting components considered to be a distinct physical entity for the purpose of study. |
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| an exploration that is based on prior scientific research or observation that can be tested. |
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| an experiment that tests only one factor at a time by using a comparison of a control group with an experimental group. |
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| a description of how close a measurement of to the correct or accepted value of the quantity measured |
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| the degree of exactness of a measurement |
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| when some measurements taken using one method and some are taken using a different method. |
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| those digits in a measurement that are known with certainty plus the first digit that is uncertain. |
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| temperature, size, motion, position, shape or color |
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| motion and its causes, interactions between objects Ex: Hits during a football game. |
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| vibrations and wave phenomena |
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| specific types of relative motion. |
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| electricity, magnetism and light Ex: Circuitry |
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| particles moving at any speed, including very high speeds Ex: nuclear energy |
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behaviors of submicroscopic particles
Ex: the atom and its particles |
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| Main areas with in physics |
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| Mechanics, thermodynamics, vibration and wave phenomena, optic, Electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics |
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| the measure of what kind of physical quantity like length, mass, time, temperature, electrical current |
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| how much of the physical quantity |
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| only if they can be used to make correct predictions in situations |
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| can be treated like algebraic quantities, both sides of the equation must have the same dimensions |
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| order- of- magnitude calculation |
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| estimation problem that helps show whether the correct answer is big or small; uses the power of 10; used with little information. |
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