Physics Vocabulary

Hi Anneke,
Always a treat to hear from you--always something interesting!
You make a lot of interesting points, I like the one about e/m waves.
The downside of the overlap between everyday and physics vocabulary is that students often have to struggle to learn to use those everyday words in the new and special sense that physics assigns.
Force is a vector
Weight and mass are very different
Angle of reflection is measured from the normal
There are 3 kinds of wave motion
Sound and light are both waves, but very different kinds!
Anyway, you know the list...
I think I'm particularly aware of this issue because there are also words in education that need to be differentiated from everyday language--and education has all those dreadful acronyms!
Hope you are enjoying summer!
Tom