Physics Chapter 1 Vocab

A rule that tells you how or why something happens the particular way it does

Situation you carefully set up to see what happens under controlled conditions

Is the detailed thinking you do to interpret and understand what you observe

Measure of the amount of matter that makes up an object

A collection of matter and processes thta occur in a certain space and can be studied 

Large enough to be observed and measured directly 

Process used to conduct an experiment 

Variable that is the cause of change in the system 

Variable that shows the effect of those changes 

Variable that is kept the same 

Variable that is changed

Measure of a system's ability to change or create change in other systems

An explanation that links the variables in a system through cause nd effect relationship

Amount of space between two points

Units distance is measured

A system of measuring that uses distance units of inches, yards, and miles

A system of measuring based on the meter and the kilogram and using multiple of 10 (International System of Units)

Quantity of time 

Based unit of time in both English and Metric systems

Is the distance it travels divided by the time it takes

The same distance is traveled every second