Ch 1 Test 8/28/13 Flashcards
A quantity of time is known as an?
Time interval
Distance measure in units of
Length
Uses length measurement of millimeters and centimeters and meters and kilometers
Metric system
In physics time is usually measured in units of
Seconds
Uses length measurements of inches feet yards and miles
English system
Distance traveled divided by time taken
Speed
A car traveling the same distance every second is moving at
Constant speed
It is believed that all vents in nature obey a set of …………. That do not change
Natural laws
Is the measure of the amount of matter in an object
Mass
Can help you understand the natural laws that relate matter and energy
Experiment
When you formulate and …….. You make and educated guess
Hypothesis
Properties are too small to be directly observed
Atomic
Variable goes with the y axis of a graph
Dependent