Physics Questions

Air is said to be saturated when it contains the maximum content of water vapour.

Integrated circuit (IC) is a tiny device that controls electric signals in such electronic equipments as computers and T.V sets. Many integrated circuits contain thousands of electronic parts on a paper - thin chip of silicon. These parts include capacitors, diodes, all in a very small, compact space.

Sound waves cannot travel through a Vacuum.

A vacuum is an area without any air, like space. So sound cannot travel through space because there is no matter for the vibrations to work in.

Heat energy can be transferred by three major methods. They are 

1. Conduction,

2. Convection and

3. Radiation.

Conduction is the movement of heat through a substance by the collision of molecules

Convection occurs when particles with a lot of heat energy in a liquid or gas move and take the place of particles with less heat energy.

Radiation is the transfer of energy by means of photons in electromagnetic waves governed by the same laws. It occurs through a vacuum or any transparent medium.

A gamma ray or gamma radiation, is a penetrating electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. It consists of the shortest wavelength electromagnetic waves and so imparts the highest photon energy.

Gamma rays are emanations that have neither mass nor charge.

Conduction is the movement of heat through a substance by the collision of molecules. It occurs when two object at different temperatures are in contact with each other. Heat flows from the warmer to the cooler object until they are both at the same temperature.

At any given speed, momentum is directly proportional to mass of an object.

The law of conservation of energy is a law of science which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed - only converted from one form of energy to another.

In 1842, Julius Robert Mayer discovered the Law of Conservation of Energy.