Physics Vocab 3
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- Ambiguous
- having two or more meanings. not clear
- Prodigious
- wonderful, amazing, enormous
- Impulse
- product of forces and time interval during which forces acts. implues equals momentum change.
- Anomaly
- a deviation from the norm or average
- Conserved
- when momentum, or any quantity in physics, does not change
- Postulate
- to assume to be true, real etc, especially as as basis for argument
- Efficiency
- in a machine, the ratio of useful energy output to total energy input or the percentage of the work inpute that is converted to work output
- Perpendicular
- at right angles to a given line or plane
- Kinetic Energy
- the energy of motion, equal to one half the mass multiplied by the speed squared
- Pendulum
- a body hung so as to swing freely to and fro: used to regulate clock movements
- Degradation
- to lower in quality
- Oscillate
- to swing to and from: to vary regularly between high and low values
- quote
- a conclusion is a place where you get tired of thinking