Section 10: Fundamental Quantitative Skills

Question 1

Involving the use of numbers.

Answer 1

Quantitative

Question 2

Involving nonnumeric description of quality.

Answer 2

Qualitative

Question 3

System of weights and measures originally developed in England and used in the United States today.

Answer 3

English System

Question 4

System of weights and measures used internationally in scientific applications and adopted for daily use by every major country except the United States.

Answer 4

Metric System

Question 5

System used for measuring plantar forces and pressures typically installed into a floor flush with the surface.

Answer 5

Force Platforms

Question 6

Physical quantity that possesses both magnitude and direction.

Answer 6

Vector

Question 7

Physical quantity that is completely described by its magnitude.

Answer 7

Scalar

Question 8

Process of determining a single vector from two or more vectors by vector addition.

Answer 8

Vector Composition

Question 9

Operation that replaces a single vector with two perpendicular vectors such that the vector composition of the two perpendicular vectors yields the original vector.

Answer 9

Vector Resolution