Can You Spell These Physics Words?

What is the type of energy an object has due to its motion?

Kinetic

Your hand has kinetic energy as it moves the cursor or mouse to select an answer. Kinetic energy is the energy of a moving body.

Keenetic

Kinatic

Kinetec

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It's a type of velocity, but which is the correct term?

Tereminal

Treminal

Terminal

Terminal velocity is the term that describes when a falling object won't go any faster due to the pressure against the object (from air pressure and gravity).

Tarminal

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If a mass has mechanical energy, what kind of energy does it have?

Potintial

Potenshial

Patential

Potential

Potential energy is defined as stored energy. The energy that a ball has when perched at a top of a steep hill as it is about to roll down is an example of potential energy. It turns into kinetic energy once it moves.

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You don't need to see or feel it to know the energy is moving. What is this called?

Ratiaton

Radiasion

Radiatian

Radiation

Radiation is the transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space. It can be energy in the form of radio waves, X-rays or other electromagnetic radiation.

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If you like your ice cream cold, and not melted, you need to know more about what?

Refrijerants

Refrigarents

Refrigerants

A refrigerant is a material used to cool something to a temperature that is lower than the area around it. Fluorocarbons, ammonia and sulfur dioxide are common refrigerants.

Frigerants

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If you have a sick child, you need one of these, what is it?

Thamameter

Thermometer

A thermometer measures a response of a substance to heat. In physics there are several types of thermometers including liquid-in-glass thermometers, spring thermometers, digital thermometers and more.

Thermemeter

Thermimeter

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It's one of the most important things you can do to an instrument before using it for an experiment. What is it?

Calibate

Calirate

Calibrate

When you check or make adjustments to an instrument of measurement so that it agrees with an applied standard, (within a specified accuracy) you are calibrating it.

Calibrete

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Think of the trajectory of a cannon ball. What kind of motion is this?

Progectile

Perojectile

Projectle

Projectile

The projectile motion is the curved path that an object follows when thrown or launched. It's the motion of the object moving under the influence of gravity.

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It's another way to say "equal balance" what is it?

Equilibrum

Equilibrim

Equilibreum

Equilibrium

Equilibrium is the condition of equal balance between opposing forces. A simple example is a teeter totter. When the weights (mass plus gravity) at both ends are equal, the board remains level.

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Which of these words refers to waves combining?

Constructive Interferance

Canstructive Interference

Censtructive Interferance

Constructive Interference

Ready to surf the BIG waves? You'll want to have some constructive interference in the ocean. It's the type of interference where waves combine so that the resulting wave is bigger than the original waves.

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This type of energy is an internal type of energy. What is it?

Thirmel

Thermel

Thermal

Thermal energy is the internal energy of an object due to the kinetic energy of its molecules. The faster the molecules are moving, the higher the temperature or its thermal energy.

Thermil

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The _______ is often represented by the lower case "f." How do you correctly spell this word?

Frequency

The frequency of a wave is the number of times per second that the wave cycles. Frequency is measured in Hertz, or cycles per second.

Frequentcy

Freequency

Frequintcy

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Reduce the friction to zero if you want an accurate one of these. Which word describes what you're setting up?

Pengulum

Pendulum

A pendulum has a mass connected to a rod or rope. This pendulum activity is called simple harmonic motion as it swings back and forth without friction.

Penjulum

Penulum

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This describes a relationship between two things. Which word is it?

Directly perportional

Directly preportional

Directly proportional

Directly proportional describes a relationship between two things such that as one increases, the other increases at the same rate.

Directly praportional

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You know that hot air rises, but what type of current is that?

Convention

Convection

When molecules are heated, they move from one place to another, taking their heat with them and expanding outward. This creates convection currents of air due to the temperature variations.

Canvection

Convectsion

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This word has to do with absorbing and emitting light. What's the correct spelling?

Flouresence

Flooresence

Floeresence

Fluorescence

Fluorescence is the ability to absorb light of short wavelength and emit light of a longer wavelength. For example, fluorescence causes a mineral to "glow" in the visible spectrum when exposed to ultraviolet light.

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How do spell the word that describes the rate at which velocity changes over time?

Accelleration

Aceleration

Acceleration

Acceleration is a measure of how fast velocity changes. The formula is the change of velocity divided by the change of time. This force has both a magnitude (a value) and a direction.

Excelleration

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Light needs to be measured to describe its intensity, which word does that?

Luminous flux

Light needs to be measured so that it can be placed into calculations and formulas to predict results. Luminous flux is the quantity of the energy of the light emitted per second in all directions.

Luminous fluxe

Lumens flux

Luminous fluc

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This is a measure of rotation rate. What is it?

Angular frequency

This measure of rotation rate is also called angular speed, radial frequency and radian frequency. In SI units, angular frequency is measured in radians per second.

Anglar frequency

Angelar frequency

Angeler frequency

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This word means going back and forth repeatedly between two positions or states. Which word might that be?

Osillation

Oscillation

An oscillation is a periodic motion that repeats itself in a regular cycle. Examples include a sine wave, the swinging of a pendulum, or the up-and-down motion of a spring with a weight.

Asillation

Oscilasion

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This word describes the ways in which waves travel. Which word is it?

Proporgatation

Praporgatation

Propagation

Sound waves moves through a medium by propagation. What is actually happening is the molecules collide with each other in the same direction as the sound is moving.

Propogatesion

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A charge can't get through the substance because it has an __________. Fill in the blank.

Lectrical insulator

Electrical insulater

Electrical insulator

The white plastic on the copper wires is an example of an electrical insulator. It keeps you from being shocked if you handle live wires because an electrical charge won't pass through the insulator.

Electrecal insulator

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A coil of wire, an electric current, and you've got one of these. What is it?

Solenod

Solinoid

Solenoid

A solenoid is a coil of wire that acts like a magnet when a flow of electricity passes through it. When a current is run through a solenoid, it makes a magnet even stronger.

Solnoid

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The more conductive a material is to magnetic fields, the higher is its _________. Fill in the blank.

Permability

Permebility

Permeability

The higher the magnetic permeability. the better the material allows for magnetic flux to pass through it. Examples of substances with high permeability are copper and gold.

Permahbility

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You learned this phenomenon in middle school with the sound of a train whistle, what is it?

The Dopler Affect

The Doppler Affect

The Dappler Affect

The Doppler Effect

Remember the example? You stand at the train station as the train blows its whistle and chugs past. You notice the pitch of the whistle gets higher or lower depending on whether the train is approaching or receding.

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What is the word that describes an object that resists being moved?

Innertia

Enertia

Anertia

Inertia

Inertia is what resists a change in the speed or direction of a moving object until an outside force acts upon it.

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When all forces pass through a common point, what is it called?

Concurent

Concurrent

To find the result of two concurrent forces, you can't just add the forces together. That's because you're dealing with vectors that have a magnitude and a direction, both of which need to be taken into account.

Cuncurrent

Concurrant

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When measuring energy flow in sounds, you might use this. What is it?

Picowatt

The picowatt is a unit of sound power, a unit that is one trillion times smaller than a watt. Sound intensity is usually expressed as the power of picowatts flowing through one square meter in the direction in which the sound propagates.

Picowat

Picawatt

Picawat

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Balance is a synonym of this word. Which one is it?

Equilibrium

You can have several forces acting upon an object at the same time while it is in a state of equilibrium, as long as the magnitude and direction of the force cancel each other out.

Equillibrium

Equalibrium

Equallibrium

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This equation describes the wave function of a particle or system. How do you spell it?

The Schrödinger equation

This important equation forms the basis of quantum mechanics. It is the most accurate theory of how subatomic particles behave. It was developed by Erwin Schrödinger, who was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Schröedinger equasion

The Shrödinger equation

The Schrödanger equation

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A prism does this. How do you spell it correctly?

Despersion

Daspersion

Dispersion

A prism disperses white light by separating a wave of different frequencies into individual components or spectrum colors.

Dyspersion

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Some use elasticity to describe what this word means. Which word is it?

Modulis

Modules

Modulus

Modulus is a measure of the elasticity of a material under pressure. More specifically, it's the ability of a material to withstand changes in length when under lengthwise tension or compression.

Modulas

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It's the force that keeps an object moving in a circle. What's the word?

Centriphysical force

Centriphital force

Centripetal force

Centripetal force is the force that keeps an object that is already moving in a circular path. It does this by pulling the object toward the center of a circle.

Centrifical force

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If you don't want your substance to chemically change, what kind of mixture do you want?

Heterogeneous

If you are making concrete, you want the mixture of an aggregate, cement, and water to retain each of the components' original properties. In other words, you want it to be a heterogeneous mixture.

Hetrogeneous

Hetrogenous

Heterogenous

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