domingo, 22 de agosto de 2010

Vocabulary No.2 ENERGY

Potential Energy:  energy stared in an object of material






Gravitational Potential Energy: the potential energy of an object located above the ground











Kinetic Energy:  energy of a moving object











Work: force applied to an object times the distance the object moves

Vocabulary No.3 Simple Machine

Simple Machine: a device with few parts that males it easier to do work









Effort Force: the force applied to machine
Resistanced Force: the force that a machine acts against
Lever: a simple machine made of a rigid bar on a pivot point










Fulcrum: the pivot point of a lever











Mechanical Advantage: the nomber of a times a machine multiplies the force applied













Pulley: a grooved wheel that turns by the action of a rope in the groove


Wheel and Axel: simple machine made of handle or axis attached to the center of a wheel

Vocabulary No.1 Newton`s Law



FORCE: push or pull exerted by one object by another

 
 
Friction: force that opposes the motion of an object in contact with a surface
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Drag Force: force that opposes the motion, of an object through a liquid or gas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gravity: force of atraction that exist between all object with mass









Net Force: the combinated effects of all the force acting on an object









Balanced Force: force that cancel each other out when acting together in a singular object









Unbalaced Force: force that do not cancel each other out when acting together in a singular object









Inertia: the tendency of an object to opposes a change in motion









Momentum: the mass of an object multiplied by its velocity