The Pure Sciences program is a school program that studies Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Astrophysics, Electricity and much more. This glossary will help any students who want to be in this program, it explains some main words in a link with it. That glossary will guide you and help you to have a very good base in Pure Sciences, then you will be in this program and you will understand faster.
- gravity
- One of the most important phenomena of the Natural Sciences, it is the force that attracts something or someone toward the center of the earth.
- algorithm
- A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
- matrix
- In mathematics, a matrix is a rectangular array of numbers, symbols, or expressions, arranged in rows and columns.
- vector
- A vector of dimension n is an ordered collection of n elements, which are called components.
- electrical resistance
- Resistance is an electrical quantity that measures how the device or material reduces the electric current flow through it.
- ampere
- It's the measure of the intensity of the current.
- magnetism
- A physic's part that studies the proprieties of magnets and phenomena in a link with it.
- relativity
- The dependence of various physical phenomena on relative motion of the observer and the observed objects, especially regarding the nature and behavior of light, space, time, and gravity.
- atom
- The basic unit of a chemical element.
- laboratory report
- If you want to go in the Pure Science program, you really need to know and understand what Laboratory Report means because you will do some a lot. This is a file where you write everything about a laboratory like the goals, the theory, the analysis and much more.
- polynomial equation
- Algebraic expression constitutes of monomers with + or - between each.
- constant
- It is a fixed value which is used in equations determinate by experiences like the constant of the gravitational acceleration.
- voltmeter
- An instrument used to measure the potential difference between two places in an electronic circuit.
- eccentricity
- The eccentricity is the ratio between the width and height of an ellipse, often use in Astrophysics to calculate the orbital eccentricity of a planet.
- au
- AU means "astronomical unit" which is the distance between earth and sun.
- equinox
- The moment in a year, generally twice each year when the sun crosses the celestial equator when day and night are of equal length.
- fusion
- Passage from a solid body to a liquid state by heat.
- inertia
- The tendency of a body to conserve his speed without an external influence.
- oscilloscope
- A device that gives a visual graph of amplitude versus time of a measured signal, as voltage or current.
- radioactivity
- The property of some element to emit energy by disintegration.
- ultrasound
- Sound with a frequency over 20k hertz like a sonar.
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