Normandale Community College
Bloomington, Minnesota

 

PHYSICS 1110 - College Physics I

Dr. Mark Hollabaugh, Instructor

KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMS FOR PHYSICS 1110

For a useful "encyclopedia" of physics terms go to:   Eric's Treasure Trove of Physics

ACCELERATION
ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY
ACCELERATION-TIME GRAPH
ACTION AT A DISTANCE
AIR RESISTANCE
ANGULAR ACCELERATION
ANGULAR MOMENTUM
ANGULAR VELOCITY
ARCHIMEDE'S PRINCIPLE
AVERAGE ACCELERATION
AVERAGE SPEED
AVERAGE VELOCITY

BERNOULLI'S EQUATION
BUOYANT FORCE
CALORIE
CARTESIAN COORDINATE SYSTEM
CENTER OF MASS
CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION
CENTRIPETAL FORCE
COEFFICIENT(S) OF FRICTION
COMPONENTS OF VECTORS
CONDUCTION
CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM
CONSERVATIVE FORCE (AND NON-CONSERVATIVE FORCE)
CONSTANT ACCELERATION
CONSTANT SPEED
CONSTANT VELOCITY
CONTACT FORCES

CONTINUITY PRINCIPLE
CONVECTION
DENSITY
DISPLACEMENT
DYNAMICS
ENERGY
ESCAPE VELOCITY
FORCE
FORCE DIAGRAM
FORCE-VECTOR DIAGRAM
FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORCES
FREE-BODY DIAGRAM
FREE-FALL
FREQUENCY
FRICTION
GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
GRAVITATIONAL FORCE
GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY
GRAVITY
HEAT
HEAT OF FUSION
HEAT OF VAPORIZATION
HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE
IDEAL GAS LAW
INERTIA & MOMENT OF INERTIA
INSTANTANEOUS ACCELERATION
INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY
INVERSE SQUARE
KEPLER’S LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION
KINEMATICS
KINETIC ENERGY
KINETIC THEORY
MASS
MECHANICAL ENERGY
MECHANICS
MODEL
MOMENTUM
NEWTON'S LAWS OF MOTION
NORMAL FORCE
ORBIT
PASCAL'S PRINCIPLE
PERIOD
POSITION
POSITION-TIME GRAPH
POTENTIAL ENERGY
POWER
PROJECTILE
RADIATION
ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY
SCALAR
SLOPE
SPECIFIC HEAT CAPACITY
SPEED
STEFAN-BOLTZMANN LAW
SURFACE TENSION
TENSION
THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM
TIME
TORQUE
UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION
UNITS
VECTOR
VELOCITY
VELOCITY-TIME GRAPH

VISCOSITY
WATT
WEIGHT
WORK
WORK-ENERGY THEOREM
ZEROTH LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
 
 

Revised, April, 2006


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