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Alloy

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Metallic mixture of two different elements

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Acoustics

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Study of mechanical waves

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Ampere

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Unit of electric current

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Angstrom

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One ten billionth of a meter

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Astronomical unit

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Distance from earth to the sun

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Background radiation

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Ionizing radiation that is always present in earth’s atmosphere

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Binary star

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Star system with two stars orbiting around each other

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Boson

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Fundamental particle

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Adhesion

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Tendency for different types of particles to cling together

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Cohesion

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Tendency for like particles to cling together

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Density

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Mass per volume

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Displacement

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Fluid moving out of the way when an object is placed in it

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Endothermic

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Reaction in which the system absorbs energy from its surroundings

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Exothermic

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Reaction in which the system releases energy

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Farad

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Unit of capacitance

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Fission

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Process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts

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Force

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Mass x acceleration

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Fusion

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Process in which multiple atomic nuclei join to create a larger nucleus

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Gamma ray

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Electromagnetic radiation of high frequency

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General relativity

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Einstein’s theory of gravitation

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Hertz

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Unit of frequency, defined as cycles per second

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Joule

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Unit of heat

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Momentum

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Mass x velocity

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Neutrino

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Neutral elementary particle

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Ohm

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Unit of electrical resistance

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Photon

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Elementary particle of light

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Pneumatics

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Application of pressurized gas to affect motion

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Pressure

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Ratio of force to area

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Quantum mechanics

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Physics dealing with atomic and subatomic particles

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Supernova

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Explosion of a star

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Transducer

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Device that converts energy from one form to another

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Uncertainty principle

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Principle that the position and momentum of a particle cannot be simultaneously known

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Watt

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Unit of power

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Vacuum

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Space that is empty of matter

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Andre-Marie ampere

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French Founder of classical electromagnetism

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Archimedes

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Hydrostatics

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Antoine Henri becquerel

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Helped discover radioactivity

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Daniel Bernoulli

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Fluid dynamics

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Niels Bohr

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Contributed to quantum mechanics

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Michael faraday

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Electromagnetism

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Enrico fermi

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Developed the nuclear reactor

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Werner Heisenberg

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Credited for creating quantum mechanics

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Max Planck

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Came up with quantum theory

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Nikola tesla

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Contributions to alternating current electricity

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