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What is Voltage?

What is Voltage? People often hear or read the word voltage. Voltage is a part of everyone’s daily life. People can read it in each electrical appliance used in their homes. Even the computer you are...

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What is Buoyant Force?

What is Buoyant Force? Buoyant force refers to the amount of pressure exerted on a particular object when placed on some kind of fluid. In scientific terms, fluids may either be liquid or gas. This...

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What is Inertia for Kids?

What is Inertia for Kids? Inertia is a nice and easy physics lessons for kids and children. In physics, inertia is part of Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion simply stating that a particular object at...

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What is Escape Velocity?

What is Escape Velocity? Escape velocity refers to the velocity required on a particular body for it to counteract the effect of gravitational force that would make it slow down and return back to its...

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What is buoyancy and how does it relate to balloons?

What is buoyancy and how does it relate to balloons? Buoyancy is the property of objects that make them float on water.  In simple terms, whenever an object is lighter than water, for example, it is...

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What is focal length?

In the field of photography, focal length is one of many terms that is commonly used among expert photographers and enthusiasts.  Many people may also encounter this term when reading labels for...

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What is aerodynamics?

Aerodynamics refers to the field of science that deals with the study of air movement and its interaction or effect when it comes in contact with solid and moving objects.  The study of aerodynamics...

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What is kWh?

What is kWh? The symbol kWh stands for kilowatt-hour, which is a unit of energy amounting to one kWh. KWh is not used in any formal system as standard unit. However, the unit is used to determine the...

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What is Voltage?

What is Voltage? People often hear or read the word voltage. Voltage is a part of everyone’s daily life. People can read it in each electrical appliance used in their homes. Even the computer you are...

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What is Buoyant Force?

What is Buoyant Force? Buoyant force refers to the amount of pressure exerted on a particular object when placed on some kind of fluid. In scientific terms, fluids may either be liquid or gas. This...

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What is air resistance?

The acceleration of an object depends on two variables which are the net force acting upon the object and the object’s mass. Remember Newton’s second law of motion? It pertains to how objects behave...

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What is an isotope?

An isotope represents the different version of atoms contained in a single element found in the periodic table. It comes from the Greek word “same place.” Each element can have identical number of...

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What is Boiling Point?

What is Boiling Point? Boiling point is usually defined as the temperature with which an element or a substance (specifically liquids) comes to a boil. Scientifically, it is defined as temperature at...

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What is Interval Notation?

An interval notation is a mathematical method of writing down a set of numbers along an axis. It is also used to describe a specific group of numbers along the X-Axis. In another way, it may be...

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What is LCM?

LCM is an acronym for Least Common Multiple or Lowest Common Multiple. It is an integral aspect in mathematics distinguished as two or more multiples of a certain number. For instance, if you want to...

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What is a Factor Tree?

A factor tree is a method of generating the prime factorization of a regular number. The primary step in developing a factor tree is to discover a couple of elements whose item is the number that we...

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What is Conduction?

Conduction is a term used to describe the process of transferring heat from point to another using a substance. The speed at which heat passes through a substance differs from one substance to another....

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What is Area?

Area refers to a quantity that shows the extent of two dimensional shapes or figures on a plane. Surface area is the depiction of two dimensional surfaces of an object that has three dimensions. Area...

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What is Force?

Force refers to interactions that result to change in motion of any given object. The interactions may either be physical in nature or purely non-physical. A force that results from interactions that...

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What is Bernoulli’s principle?

Bernoulli’s principle refers to a law in physics that once the speed of a liquid or gas increases, the corresponding pressure also decreases. With this principle, fluids or gas particles for example...

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