Chapters 1-4 Physics Vocabulary

The branch of science that studies matter and energy and their relationships

The patterns of investigating procedures.

A possible explanation for a problem using what you know and what you observe.

A representation of an idea, event, structure, or object to help people better understand it.

An explanation of things or events based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations.

Statement about what happens in nature and seems to be true all the time.

The method of treating units as algebraic quantities that can be cancelled; can be used to check that an answer will be in the correct units.

All the valid digits in a measurement, the number of which indicates the measurements precision.

A comparison between an unknown quantity and a standard.

A characteristic of a measured value describing the degree of exactness of a movement.