PHYSICS

MOTION

1. What is speed a measure of?

2. What is the fastest speed we know of?

3. What is acceleration and what is it caused by?

4. Describe the concept of momentum?

5. What 2 things does momentum depend on?

GRAVITY, FLOATING, SINKING

1. Explain what gravity is.

2. If you drop 2 objects of same shape but different mass, will they hit the ground at
different times or the same time? Explain your answer.

3. Define the following words

Upthrust:
Displacement:
Floating:
Sinking:
Density:
ENERGY

1. What is kinetic energy?

2. What is potential energy?

3. Give two examples of energy changes.

4. What is the Conservation of Energy law?

HEAT

1. What are conductors?

2. What are insulators?

3. What happens to the particles of a substance when it is heated?

ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM

1. Order these from the smallest wavelengths

to the largest.

Radio waves, Infrared waves, Light waves,

Gamma rays, X- rays, Microwaves, Ultraviolet
Waves
ANSWERS

MOTION
1. Measure of the distance moved by an object in a certain time
2. Speed of light
3. When an object increases its speed / Measure of gain in speed over certain time
period. Caused by unbalanced forces.
4. Describes the movement of an object – will keep moving at same speed until
something slows it.
5. Speed of object and its mass.

GRAVITY
1. Force of attraction between any two object in the Universe.
2. Same time – because even though more massive objects experience greater
gravity force, it is also harder for gravity force to move it because it is so massive.
3. Upthrust: force of water pushing up
Displacement: water is disrupted out of place
Floating: above surface of water – doesn’t sink
Sinking: goes below surface of water – doesn’t float
Density: mass of substance

ENERGY
1. Energy of moving object
2. Stored energy that isn’t active yet (can be chemical, nuclear, elastic, etc.)
3. Eg. electric blanket that is switched on transforms electrical energy into heat
energy.
Eg2. When you kick a ball, kinetic energy from moving foot transferred to ball.
4. Eenrgy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy can only be changed from one form
to another.

HEAT
1. Allows passing of energy along object from particle to particle.
2. Doesn’t allow transfer of heat/ energy to occur frequently.
3. Particles increase in kinetic energy so in solids, they vibrate faster as they heat up.
Particles in liquid and gas move faster and further as they heat.

ELECTROMAGNETISM
1. Gamma rays, x- rays, UV waves, Light waves, infrared waves, microwaves, radio
waves.