Amusement Park Physics Glossary

AMUSEMENT PARK PHYSICS GLOSSARY Here are some physics concepts that you will encounter today. Most of them should be familiar to you after the exciting physics class you’ve been in this year. ACCELERATION: Time rate of change of velocity (either speed or direction) of motion. ACCELEROMETER: A device to measure acceleration. AIR RESISTANCE: Force resisting motion of a body through air due to the frictional forces between the air and body. AMPLITUDE: The maximum height of the wave above or below zero level. ANGULAR ACCELERATION: Time rate of change of angular velocity. ANGULAR VELOCITY: Time rate of change of angular position. CENTRIPETAL FORCE: A force on an object pulling or pushing the object towards the center of its curved path. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY: Basic tenet of physics stating that energy can neither be created nor destroyed in any process, though it may change form. CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM: The total momentum of a system is constant whenever the net external force on the system is zero. ELASTIC COLLISION: A collision in which kinetic energy is the same before and after the collision. FORCE: A push or pull. The time rate of change (direction and magnitude) of momentum. FREQUENCY: The number of waves that pass a particular point in one second. FRICTION: A retarding force that resists the motion of a body. G-FORCE: Ratio of the magnitude of acceleration on a body to the acceleration of gravity at sea level on Earth (g = 9.8 m/s2). GRAVITY: Attractive force between two bodies, proportional to their masses. IMPULSE: Product of the magnitude of a force on a body times the time over which the force acts on the body. INELASTIC COLLISON: A collision in which kinetic energy decrease as a result of the collision. INERTIA: Tendency of a body to remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line. KINETIC ENERGY: The energy of a body associated with its motion. .

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10. Collisions • Use Conservation of Momentum and Energy and The
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