Flashcards in Chapter 1 Deck (44)
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How is physics an experimental science?
It involves measurements and experiments
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What would a pattern be?
a physical theory
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What is a physical law?
A theory that held true
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How should you solve a physics problem?
Find givens and what you need to find, set up the equations, execute by plugging numbers and solving, and evaluate the results
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What are the 3 fundamental quantities of physics?
Length, time, and mass (meter, second, and kilogram)
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What is the purpose of significant figures?
Finding uncertainty in a measument
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What can scientific notation be useful for?
Indicating the number of significant figures
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What is the rule for an even number followed by a 5?
It stays the same
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What is the rule for an odd number followed by a 5?
it rounds up
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When doing math, what kind of sig figs get priority?
The least number of sig figs. In addition/subtraction you use the least number of decimals
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What is an order of magnitude?
A quick calculation for a general idea
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How does an oder of magnitude work?
You compare 2 numbers in scientific notation to the square root of 10 and round
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What is the square root of 10?
3.167
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What is accuracy?
The closeness to a true value
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What is precision?
The number of sig figs used
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What is a scalar?
A quantity specified without direction
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What is a vector?
A quantity specified that does have direction. It's specified as force and velocity
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What are equal vectors?
Vectors with equal magnitude and direction
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What is a negative vector?
A vector with opposite direction but the same magnitude
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How do you add vectors graphically?
put them head to tail. They're commutative
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How do you subtract vectors graphically?
Put them head to head
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What is an accurate way to add vectors?
Trigonometyry
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What is a unit vector?
A vector with a magnitude of 1 with no units. You use them with x/y/z to do cartesian coordinates
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How does a scalar dot product work?
Foiling their unit vectors
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What quantity usually serves as a vector's magnitude?
Length
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What is the direction of a vector?
Its angle
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What is the angle between 2 parallel vectors?
0 degrees
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What is the angle between 2 antiparallel vectors?
180 degrees
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How does multiplication with scalar quantities effect a vector?
It changes its magnitude but not direction. Direction is only changed when the scalar is negative
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What is the Y component of a vector?
A x Sin (angle)
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What is the X component of a vector?
A x Cos (angle)
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How do you find the magnitude of angle A?
sqrt(Ax^2 + Ay^2)
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How do you find the angle of a vector with its components?
arctan (Ax/Ay)
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The components can be ____ or ____
Positive or Negative
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What determines the signs of the components?
The angle
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How do you add vectors with components?
You add the X and Y components, use the Pythagorean theorem, and then take the arctan of the components
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What does ihat indicate?
The x components
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What does jhat indicate?
The y components
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What does khat represent?
The z components
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What does the dot/scalar product provide?
A scalar result
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What is the dot product formula?
Vector A x Vector B=AB x Cos (Chi)
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When is the scalar product negative?
When the angle is larger than 90 degrees
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What is the scalar product of 2 perpendicular vectors?
0
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