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| 732703940 | vector | quantity with magnitude and direction | |
| 732703941 | scalar | quantity with only magnitude | |
| 732703942 | unit vectors | vectors in the x or y axis that have a magnitude of 1 | |
| 732703943 | vector components | the vertical and horizontal vector that makes up the resultant vector | |
| 732703944 | Kinematics | the study of an object's motion in terms of its displacement, velocity, and acceleration. | |
| 732703945 | Average speed | ratio of the total distance traveled to the time required to cover that distance | |
| 732703946 | Velocity | ratio of displacement to time | |
| 732703947 | acceleration | change in velocity over time | |
| 732703948 | launch angle | the angle that the initial velocity vector makes with the ground | |
| 732703949 | Dynamics | the study of why things move the way they do | |
| 732703950 | force | an interaction between two bodies | |
| 732703951 | Inertia | the natural resistance to changes in state of motion | |
| 732703952 | mass | the quantitative measure of its inertia. How much matter is in an object | |
| 732703953 | action/ reaction pair | the two forces caused by a certain interaction between bodies | |
| 732703954 | newton | the measurement of a force (in kgm/second squared) | |
| 732703955 | weight | the gravitational force exerted on a mass by the Earth | |
| 732703956 | Free Body Diagram | the diagram of all the forces acting on an object (also known as the force diagram) | |
| 732703957 | Normal Force | the force perpendicular to the surface (abbreviated N) | |
| 732703958 | Friction Force | comes from electrical interactions between atoms of which the object is composed and those of which the surface is composed | |
| 732703959 | Static Friction | the resistance met when initially pushing and object | |
| 732703960 | Kinetic (Sliding) Friction | the resistance met after the object is in motion | |
| 732703961 | Coefficient of friction | this is mu. It has no units and represents the nature of two contacting surfaces | |
| 732703962 | Pulleys | Devises that change the direction of the tension force in the cords that slide over them | |
| 732703963 | Energy | the measurement of change (the ability to do work) | |
| 732703964 | Work | the application of force over a distance | |
| 732703965 | Kinetic Energy | the amount of energy an object in motion has (defined by 1/2 mv squared) | |
| 732703966 | Potential Energy | the amount of energy an object or system has bey virtue of its position or configuration. | |
| 732703967 | Gravitational Potential Energy | the energy stored by virtue of an object's position in a gravitational field. (defined by mgh) | |
| 732703968 | Conservative Forces | a force that does not depend on the path taken to reach a certain distance | |
| 732703969 | Mechanical Energy | the summation of the Kinetic and Potential energies | |
| 732703970 | Power | The rate at which work is done | |
| 732703971 | Watt | the unit of power. It is in joules per second | |
| 732703972 | Linear Momentum | the product of mass and velocity. (Newton's words: the alteration of motion is proportional to the force impressed) | |
| 732703973 | Impulse | the change in momentum | |
| 732703974 | Collisions | an impact between two objects | |
| 732703975 | Elastic Collision | A collision in which kinetic energy is conserved | |
| 732703976 | Inelastic Collision | A collision in which kinetic energy is different after the collision | |
| 732703977 | Uniform Circular Motion | the state where an object travels and a constant tangential velocity in a circle | |
| 732703978 | Centripetal Acceleration | the acceleration vector that keeps the object moving in a circle | |
| 732703979 | Centripetal Force | The force required for an object to stay in circular motion | |
| 732703980 | Torque | the force applied to a pivot point to cause circular motion | |
| 732703981 | Net Torque | The sum of all torque acting on an object | |
| 732703982 | Translational Equilibrium | the state when the sum off all the forces acting on an object is zero | |
| 732703983 | Rotational Equilibrium | the state when the sum of all the torques acting on an object is zero | |
| 732703984 | Static Equilibrium | the state when the object is at rest | |
| 732703985 | Gravitational Force | The force between two objects in the universe. (always is attractive) | |
| 732703986 | Spring Constant | The measurement of how stiff the spring is | |
| 732703987 | Equilibrium position | the position at which the net force on the block is zero | |
| 732703988 | Restoring Force | A force that acts in a way to return to its original state | |
| 732703989 | Ideal (or Linear) Spring | Springs that obey Hooke's Law | |
| 732703990 | Elastic Potential Energy | The potential energy that a spring contains | |
| 732703991 | Cycle | a round-trip from a position back to the same position | |
| 732703992 | Period | the time for one cycle | |
| 732703993 | Frequency | the amount of cycles per time (normally in seconds) | |
| 732703994 | Hertz (Hz) | The unit for one cycle per second | |
| 732703995 | Simple Pendulum | a system that consists of a weight attached to a string or a mass-less rod that swings, without friction, about the vertical equilibrium position. | |
| 732703996 | Fluids | substances that can flow. Can be a gas or a liquid | |
| 732703997 | Pressure | the force distributed over area | |
| 732703998 | Specific Gravity | The ratio of density of a substance to the density of water | |
| 732703999 | Pascal | The SI unit for pressure, units are Newtons per square meter | |
| 732704000 | Atmosphere | The non-SI unit for pressure, but is equal to one at sea level. | |
| 732704001 | Hydrostatic Pressure | The pressure caused by a standing liquid | |
| 732704002 | Gauge Pressure | The difference between total pressure and atmospheric pressure. In essence, is the pressure caused by the substance itself. | |
| 732704003 | Buoyant Force | The force caused by the difference in pressure from the top to the bottom. Archimedes' Principle proves this | |
| 732704004 | Flow Rate | the volume of fluid that passes a particular point per unit time | |
| 732704005 | Viscosity | the force of cohesion between molecules in a fluid. Is like internal friction | |
| 732704006 | Streamline | A line in the fluid that has a current passing through it. (as a noun) | |
| 732704007 | Laminar (streamline) | A condition that results from the individual streamlines don't curl up into vortices but are steady and smooth. (as an adjective) | |
| 732704008 | Turbulent | a condition that results from the rapid swirling of a streamline into whirlpools. The flow is unpredictable. | |
| 732704009 | Heat | thermal energy that is transmitted from one body to another. | |
| 732704010 | Thermal Energy | the random motion of a substance's molecules are a measurement of this | |
| 732704011 | Temperature | the measure of the concentration of an object's internal thermal energy | |
| 732704012 | Fahrenheit | The scale of temperature where water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 | |
| 732704013 | Celsius (Centigrade) | The scale of temperature where water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 | |
| 732704014 | Absolute Temperature Scale (Kelvin) | The scale of temperature where water freezes at 273.15 and boils at 373.15. Also assigns 0 to the lowest theoretically possible temperature | |
| 732704015 | Triple Point | The point at which the solid, liquid, and vapor states are possible (in temperature) | |
| 732704016 | Solid, Liquid, Gas (Vapor) | The three states of matter | |
| 732704017 | Melts (liquifies) | the process where a solid turns into a liquid | |
| 732704018 | Freezes (solidifies) | the process where a liquid turns into a solid | |
| 732704019 | Evaporate | the process where a liquid turns into a vapor (or gas) | |
| 732704020 | Condensate | the process where a vapor (or gas) turns into a liquid | |
| 732704021 | Sublimation | the process where a solid tuns into a vapor (or gas) | |
| 732704022 | Deposition | the process where a vapor (or gas) turns into a solid | |
| 732704023 | Specific Heat | An intrinsic property of the substance that dictates its ability to transfer thermal energy | |
| 732704024 | Latent Heat of Transformation | The amount of heat required to go through a phase change (can be of fusion or vaporization) | |
| 732704025 | Coefficient of linear expansion | The proportionality constant for a specific material that allows for expansion in a line (sometimes contraction) | |
| 732704026 | Coefficient of volume expansion | The proportionality constant for a specific material that allows for the expansion in three dimensions. | |
| 732704027 | Mole | A simplification of the number of molecules in a substance. (could have been for the mathematically challenged) | |
| 732704028 | Avogadro's constant | This is the exact number of molecules in one mole. Is equal to 6.03 times ten to the twenty-ninth. | |
| 732704029 | Universal Gas Constant | This is equal to 8.31 Joules per mole Kelvin | |
| 732704030 | Root-Mean-Square Speed | This is the average velocity of the gas molecules in a vapor. Found by squaring, averaging, and then Square rooting the velocities of the gas molecules. | |
| 732704031 | Molar Mass | The amount of mass in one mole of a substance | |
| 732704032 | Liter | The measurement of volume that is equal to 10 to the negative third cubic meters | |
| 732704033 | STP (Standard Temperature and Pressure) | The condition where temperature is 0 degrees Celsius and 1 atmosphere | |
| 732704034 | Thermodynamics | The study of the energy transfers involving work and heat, and the resulting changes in internal energy, temperature, volume, and pressure | |
| 732704035 | P-V Diagram | The graph of pressure versus volume in a gas. | |
| 732704036 | State of a gas | The exact pressure, volume, and temperature of a gas | |
| 732704037 | Internal energy | A fundamental property of a gas that describes its behavior | |
| 732704038 | Isochoric | A change in a gas that changes everything but volume | |
| 732704039 | cyclical process | A process that begins and ends in the same state (of a gas) | |
| 732704040 | isotherm | No variation of temperature takes place during this process, essentially ∆U is the same | |
| 732704041 | Adiabatic | The change in a gas when Q is equal to 0 | |
| 732704042 | Carnot Engine | A heat engine that uses the Carnot cycle to have maximized efficiency | |
| 732704043 | Thermal Efficiency | Equal to the ratio of work in to work out in a heat engine | |
| 732704044 | Absolute Zero | The theoretically temperature that all particle motion stops | |
| 732704045 | Electrical Charge | This causes the attraction or repulsion in electricity | |
| 732704046 | Charged | The state of electricity when there is an imbalance of protons and electrons | |
| 732704047 | Ionization | the removal or addition of charged objects to form an ion | |
| 732704048 | Elementary Charge | The magnitude of charge on an electron or proton | |
| 732704049 | Quantized | This is how we describe charge, it is because we can only add or subtract charge in increments of e | |
| 732704050 | Electric force | The force of attraction or repulsion created by two charged substances | |
| 732704051 | Coulombs | The SI unit for Charge | |
| 732704052 | Permittivity of free space | The fundamental constant that describes permittivity of a vacuum | |
| 732704053 | Superposition | The addition of vectors in a system (need to consider angles as well | |
| 732704054 | Gravitational Field | the field of attractive force caused by gravity near a large mass | |
| 732704055 | Electric Filed | The field of attractive or repulsive force caused by charge in a mass | |
| 732704056 | Electric Field Vector | This vector represents the strength of the electric force at a point. | |
| 732704057 | Electric Dipole | The relation of two opposite and equal charges | |
| 732704058 | Conductors | Materials that permit the flow of excess charge | |
| 732704059 | Insulators | Materials that deny the flow of charge, they hold their electrons closely | |
| 732704060 | Semiconductors | Materials that are less conductive than metals but not insulators | |
| 732704061 | Superconductor | Materials the offer absolutely no resistance to the flow of charge, a perfect conductor of charge | |
| 732704062 | Electrical Potential Energy | The amount of energy of a charged particle in an electric field solely dependent on the particle's position | |
| 732704063 | Electric Potential | The electric potential energy per unit charge | |
| 732704064 | Volt | The unit that describes Electrical Potential. Units are Joules per coulomb | |
| 732704065 | Equipotential Surfaces | Surfaces of constant potential | |
| 732704066 | Capacitor | This is created by two conductors separated by some distance that carry equal and opposite charge | |
| 732704067 | Parallel-plate Capacitors | A type of capacitor that is described by two metal plates in parallel | |
| 732704068 | Capacitance | The measurement of the capacity for holding charge. | |
| 732704069 | Farad | The unit for measuring capacitance. Units are coulombs per volt | |
| 732704070 | Electrical Current | The ordered motion of charge through a conductor | |
| 732704071 | Drift Speed | the speed of the electrons that have to go through the sea of atoms in a wire. This is relatively slow compared to the speed of the electric field that travels through the wire | |
| 732704072 | Average Current | the amount of charge that crosses an imaginary plane in a certain time interval | |
| 732704073 | Ampere | The SI unit for charge, is in Coulombs per second | |
| 732704074 | Resistance | The stemming of the flow of charge. Is related to potential and current through Ohm's Law. | |
| 732704075 | Ohm | The measurement of resistance. It is measured in volts per amp. | |
| 732704076 | Resistivity | The intrinsic property that produces resistance in a material | |
| 732704077 | Circuit | A system of current carrying wires connected to a voltage source in a closed pathway | |
| 732704078 | Direct Current | A circuit where all the current is moving in one direction | |
| 732704079 | Electromotive Force (EMF) | The potential different between the poles of the voltage source. Isn't really a force, it is the work done per unit charge, measured in Volts. | |
| 732704080 | Resistors | Devices that apply resistance to a circuit to manage current | |
| 732704081 | Positive | The terminal with higher potential | |
| 732704082 | Negative | The terminal with lower potential | |
| 732704083 | Series | The circuit type where one resistor is connected one after another | |
| 732704084 | Parallel | The circuit type where one resistor is connected side by side | |
| 732704085 | Internal Resistance | The intrinsic amount of resistance in a material used to move current | |
| 732704086 | Terminal Voltage | The effective voltage provided by the battery to the rest of the circuit | |
| 732704087 | Voltmeter | The device used to measure the voltage between two points in a circuit | |
| 732704088 | Ammeter | The device used to measure current of a circuit | |
| 732704089 | Grounded | The condition of a circuit where the wire connects to a ground | |
| 732704090 | Ground | The place where potential is considered to be zero | |
| 732704091 | Magnetic Fields | The field that causes a magnetic force (can be created by a magnet or current through a wire) | |
| 732704092 | Tesla (T) | The SI unit for magnetic field. Units are Newton per ampere-meter | |
| 732704093 | Gauss (G) | A unit for magnetic field, non-SI. Equals 10 to the negative fourth Teslas | |
| 732704094 | Motional emf | The electromotive force created by sliding a rod through a magnetic field, thereby changing the area of the circuit | |
| 732704095 | Magnetic Flux | The product of Area times the magnetic field, measured in Webers. | |
| 732704096 | Weber (Wb) | The SI unit for magnetic Flux, units are Tesla meter squared or Newton meter per ampere. | |
| 732704097 | North Pole | The place where the field lines in a magnetic field flow from | |
| 732704098 | South Pole | The place where the field lines in a magnetic field flow to | |
| 732704099 | Mechanical Wave | A disturbance transmitted by a medium from one point to another without the medium itself being transported | |
| 732704100 | Traveling Wave | a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave | |
| 732704101 | Crests | The maximum vertical displacement of the wave above the horizontal | |
| 732704102 | Troughs | The maximum vertical displacement of the wave below the horizontal | |
| 732704103 | Wavelength | The length of one wave, goes between two troughs or two crests | |
| 732704104 | Amplitude | The maximum vertical displacement from the horizontal | |
| 732704105 | Propagates | Basically, what the wave does, but it signifies the direction of the wave | |
| 732704106 | Transverse | The wave in which the wave oscillates perpendicular o the direction in which the wave propagates | |
| 732704107 | Angular frequency | This is defined by multiplying 2 pi times the frequency | |
| 732704108 | Angular wave number | This is defined by multiplying 2 pi times the wave number | |
| 732704109 | Wave Number (Propagation constant, K) | The number of wavelengths per unit distance | |
| 732704110 | Superposition | The sum of the displacements of two or more waves where they meet and interfere with each other | |
| 732704111 | Interfere | In Waves, this is where the waves overlap and react to one another | |
| 732704112 | Constructive Interference | The type of interference where the wave displacement is made greater as a result of the difference | |
| 732704113 | Destructive Interference | The type of interference where the wave displacement is made smaller as a result of the difference | |
| 732704114 | In Phase | When the two waves meet, they are described as this when the crest of one wave matches the crest of another (or trough etc. same point) | |
| 732704115 | Out of Phase | When the two waves meet, they are described as this when the crest of one wave meets the trough of another (or slightly off, but it is exactly out of phase if the crest hits the trough) | |
| 732704116 | Standing Wave | The wave where the crests or troughs don't move anymore and the oscillation continues | |
| 732704117 | Nodes | The points in a standing wave where there is zero amplitude | |
| 732704118 | Anti-nodes | The points in a standing wave where there is maximum amplitude | |
| 732704119 | Harmonic Waves (or Resonant Waves) | The frequency of a wave that produces a node (or anti-node if using instruments) on each end of the wave | |
| 732704120 | Harmonic Number | the number that describes the degree of the harmonic waves. For frequencies, this is directly proportional and for wavelengths, inversely proportional | |
| 732704121 | Fundamental Frequency | The frequency of a standing wave in a certain medium that has a harmonic number of 1 | |
| 732704122 | Compressions | The points in a longitudinal wave where the molecules are bunched together, pressure above normal. | |
| 732704123 | Rarefactions | The points in a longitudinal wave where the molecules are farther apart, pressure below normal. | |
| 732704124 | Longitudinal Waves | The type of waves that have compressions and rarefactions, not nodes and anti-nodes | |
| 732704125 | Bulk Modulus | The measurement of the medium's response to compression. | |
| 732704126 | Intensity | The energy transmitted by sound, is in W/ m squared and is solely dependent on the wave's amplitude. | |
| 732704127 | Decibels | The non-SI unit of sound intensity. Is abbreviated dB | |
| 732704128 | Loudness level | Is dependent on the intensity of the wave, is a way to describe the decibels of the sound. | |
| 732704129 | Beat | When two sound waves interfere constructively, this is produced | |
| 732704130 | Beat Frequency | The difference between the frequencies of the two combining sound waves that make a beat. | |
| 732704131 | Overtone | The harmonics above the first harmonic in a simple instrument | |
| 732704132 | Doppler Effect | The shift in frequency and wavelength that occurs when the source and detector are in relative motion. | |
| 732704133 | Red-shifted | When the wavelength for light shifts higher, astronomers describe the shift as this. | |
| 732704134 | Electromagnetic Spectrum (EM Spectrum) | The continuum that includes radiowaves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, y-rays (gamma rays). | |
| 732704135 | Radiowaves | The electromagnetic wave that goes to the frequency of 10 to the 9th | |
| 732704136 | Microwaves | The electromagnetic wave that goes from the frequency of 10 to the 9th to 10 to halfway between 10 to the 11th and 10 to the 12th. | |
| 732704137 | Infrared | The electromagnetic wave that goes from between the frequencies of 10 to the 11th and 10 to the 12th to 10 to the 14th | |
| 732704138 | Visible Light | The electromagnetic wave that goes from the frequencies of 10 to the 14th to a little below 10 to the 15th | |
| 732704139 | Ultraviolet | The electromagnetic wave that goes from a little below the frequency of 10 to the 15th to a little above 10 to the 16th | |
| 732704140 | X-Rays | The electromagnetic wave that goes from a little above the frequency of 10 to the 16th to halfway between 10 to the 19th and 10 to the 20th. | |
| 732704141 | Gamma Rays (y-Rays) | The electromagnetic wave that goes from between the frequencies of 10 to the 19th and 10 to the 20th and upwards | |
| 732704142 | Coherent | The description where two interfering waves keep the same phase difference over time, not varying. | |
| 732704143 | Diffraction | The effect caused when a wave passes through a barrier with a comparable width to its wavelength. Forms a fan-out pattern. | |
| 732704144 | Fringes | The bands of dark and light in a diffraction pattern that are visible. | |
| 732704145 | Central Maximum | The bright fringe directly opposite to the midpoint between the slits in a diffraction setting. | |
| 732704146 | Diffraction gratings | Barriers that contain thousands of tiny slits per centimeter and it makes the pattern sharper. | |
| 732704147 | Incident bream | The beam of light that strikes a surface and will be reflected or refracted. | |
| 732704148 | Angle of incidence | The angle formed between the incident beam and the normal | |
| 732704149 | Reflected Beam | The beam of light that is reflected off of a surface from the incident beam | |
| 732704150 | Angle of Reflection | The angle that the reflected beam makes with the normal | |
| 732704151 | Index of Refraction | The number that relates the speed of light in air versus the speed of light in the material. | |
| 732704152 | Refract | The bending of light towards or away from the normal when passing through a surface | |
| 732704153 | Dispersion | The effect caused when light strikes a surface and refracts according to each component's index of refraction (most visible in a prism with visible light). | |
| 732704154 | Critical Angle | The angle of incidence where the angle of refraction equals 90 degrees | |
| 732704155 | Total Internal Reflection (TIR) | This happens when the angle of incidence is greater than the critical angle | |
| 732704156 | Mirror | An optical device that forms an image by reflecting light | |
| 732704157 | Real Image | An image that can be projected onto the screen. The image that is in the expected position (on a ray diagram) | |
| 732704158 | Virtual Image | An image that cannot be projected onto the screen. The image that is in the opposite position (on a ray diagram) | |
| 732704159 | Spherical Mirror | A mirror that is curved in such a way that its surface forms part of a phere | |
| 732704160 | Center of Curvature | The center of the imaginary sphere that forms the mirror | |
| 732704161 | Radius of Curvature | The radius of the imaginary sphere of a spherical mirror, it goes from a point to the center of curvature | |
| 732704162 | Focal Point (Focus) | The point halfway between the mirror and the center of curvature | |
| 732704163 | Axis | This is the line where the mirror is symmetrical over | |
| 732704164 | Vertex | The intersection point where the axis intersects with the mirror itself | |
| 732704165 | Focal Length | The distance between the vertex and the focal point | |
| 732704166 | Paraxial Rays | The incident light rays that strike close to the mirrors axis. These light rays act almost the same in spherical and parabolic mirrors. | |
| 732704167 | Concave Mirror | This is a mirror with the reflective side is caved in toward the the viewer | |
| 732704168 | Convex Mirror | This is a mirror with the reflective side curving away from the viewer | |
| 732704169 | Ray Tracing | The geometric approach of finding the image in a Ray Diagram | |
| 732704170 | Converging Lens | This type of lens has both sides approaching each other near the ends. It is a bi-convex lens, commonly, but only one side needs to be convex (the other must be planar then) | |
| 732704171 | Real Focus | The focal point on the opposite side of a lens. It is opposite the incident light rays. | |
| 732704172 | Diverging Lens | This type of lens has both sides going farther away from each other near the ends. It is normally bi-concave, but only one side needs to be concave (the other must be planar then) | |
| 732704173 | Virtual Focus | The focus on the same side as the incident light rays in a lens. The focus on the same side of the lens | |
| 732704174 | Optical Center | The central point within the lens where the axis intersects the lens. | |
| 732704175 | Power of a Lens | Defined as one over focal length | |
| 732704176 | Diopters (D) | This is the measurement of the power of a lens. Measured in 10 to the negative first meters | |
| 732704177 | Quanta | The bundle of electromagnetic energy that is absorbed or emitted by matter | |
| 732704178 | Photon | The quantum of electromagnetic energy | |
| 732704179 | Photoelectric Effect | The effect that a stream of photons produces. Basically light can behave like a wave or a particle (This effect is caused by the particle behavior) | |
| 732704180 | Photoelectrons | The released electrons that are emitted because of the Photoelectric effect. | |
| 732704181 | Threshold frequency | The smallest amount of frequency that is required to release electrons from a certain metal | |
| 732704182 | Planck's Constant | This photoelectric constant is equal to 6.63 Joules per second. It is the proportionality constant between the energy of the electromagnetic wave and the frequency of it. | |
| 732704183 | Work Function | The amount of energy required to release an electron from a certain metal. This changes with each material | |
| 732704184 | Electronvolt (eV) | This is a small amount of energy, it is equal to 1.6 x 10 to the negative 19th Joules. It is equal to the energy gained or lost by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of one volt | |
| 732704185 | Atomic Spectra | The component wavelengths of the light given off from a glowing gas | |
| 732704186 | Excited | The process where an electron goes to a higher orbit, one with a greater radius. Essentially, it gets ______ | |
| 732704187 | Energy Level | The n in the quantum mechanics. This is another way to describe the orbit level of the electron since those orbits contain a certain amount of energy | |
| 732704188 | Ground-State Energy | The smallest amount of energy an electron in a specific orbit can have. Is specific to the atom | |
| 732704189 | Ionizing | When the atom loses or gains electrons, it goes through this process to become an ion. | |
| 732704190 | Ionization Energy | The minimum amount of energy that must be supplied to release the atom's electron. | |
| 732704191 | Wave-Particle Duality | This is the phenomenon where light propagates like a wave but also acts like a particle. Also can apply to matter (This is freaky to think about!) | |
| 732704192 | de Broglie Wavelength | This is the wavelength that matter exerts while it is in motion. Is mostly noticeable with subatomic particles, not ordinary objects | |
| 732704193 | Protons | The positive subatomic particles in the nucleus | |
| 732704194 | Neutrons | The subatomic particles in the nucleus that have no net charge | |
| 732704195 | Nucleons | The collective term for protons and neutrons | |
| 732704196 | Atomic Number | The number of protons in a given nucleus gives this number | |
| 732704197 | Neutron Number | The number of neutrons in a given nucleus gives this number | |
| 732704198 | Mass Number (Nucleon Number) | The total number of nucleons in a given atom, is the number of protons plus the number of neutrons. | |
| 732704199 | Isotopes | The atoms that contain the same number of protons (within an element), but different number of neutrons | |
| 732704200 | Nuclide | The term for a nucleus with a specific numbers of protons and neutrons | |
| 732704201 | Strong Nuclear Force | The fundamental force that binds neutrons and protons together. It is too complicated to be expressed in a simple formula | |
| 732704202 | Atomic Mass Unit (amu) | The mass of one individual nucleon. Defined as 1/12th of the mass of a Carbon-12 atom. | |
| 732704203 | Deuteron (Nucleus of Deuterium) | The isotope of Hydrogen that has one proton and one neutron | |
| 732704204 | Mass Defect (d) | The difference of mass between the theoretical mass of the atom through weighing each individual nucleon and the actual mass of the atom | |
| 732704205 | Binding energy | The energy that holds the nucleus together | |
| 732704206 | Mas-Energy Equivalence | This is the idea that is proven by Einstein's famous equation E-∆m x c squared | |
| 732704207 | Binding-Energy-Per-Nucleon | This is calculated by taking the total amount of binding energy and dividing it by the total number of nucleons | |
| 732704208 | Nuclear Fission | The process of splitting an atomic nucleus | |
| 732704209 | Nuclear Fusion | The process of fusing an atomic nucleus | |
| 732704210 | Disintegration Energy | The amount of energy that is released in a radioactive decay process (or needed to be added to make a nuclear process work) | |
| 732704211 | Exothermic (Exoergic) | When the disintegration energy is positive, this type of nuclear process is spontaneous | |
| 732704212 | Endothermic (Endoergic) | When the disintegration energy is positive, this type of nuclear process cannot be spontaneous |
