Acceleration - ✔✔✔-The rate of change of velocity
Accurate result - ✔✔✔-A result that is close to the true answer
Alternating current - ✔✔✔-A current that changes with time in a regular cycle
Ammeter - ✔✔✔-A component used to measure the current flowing through a circuit
Amplitude - ✔✔✔-The maximum displacement of a wave
Angle of incidence - ✔✔✔-The angle that incoming light makes to the normal or a boundry
Angle of refraction - ✔✔✔-The angle that incoming light makes to the normal of a boundary
Annihilation - ✔✔✔-The process by which a particle and its antiparticle meet and their mass
gets converted to energy in the form of a pair of gamma ray photons
Anomalous result - ✔✔✔-A result that doesn't fit in with the pattern of the other results in a
set of data
Antimatter - ✔✔✔-The name given to all antiparticles
Antineutrino - ✔✔✔-The antiparticle of a neutrino
Antiparticle - ✔✔✔-A particle with the same rest mass and energy as its corresponding particle
but equal and opposite charge
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Apha decay - ✔✔✔-A type of decay in which an unstable nucleus of an atom emits an alpha
particle
Atom - ✔✔✔-A particle made up of protons and neutrons in a central nucleus and electrons
orbiting the nucleus
Atomic number - ✔✔✔-The number of protons in an atom of an element
Baryon - ✔✔✔-A type of hardon made up of three quarks
Baryon number - ✔✔✔-The number of baryons in a particle
Beta-minus decay - ✔✔✔-A type of decay in which an unstable nucleus of an atom emits a
beta-minus particle (an electron) and an antineutrino
Breaking stress - ✔✔✔-The lowest stress that is big enough to break a material
Brittle - ✔✔✔-A brittle material doesn't deform plastically but snaps when the stress on it
reaches a certain point `
Brittle fracture - ✔✔✔-When a stress app;lied to a brittle material causes tiny cracks at the
materials surface to get bigger until the material breaks completely
Categoric data - ✔✔✔-Data that can be sorted into categories
Center of mass - ✔✔✔-The point which you can consider all of an object's weight to act
through