Appendix F — Glossary
One word for each idea, used the same way everywhere in the game and in this book.
- Calibration
- the signed m/s range printed around a velocity needle.
- Cohort
- both carts’ readings from the same accepted Push Both.
- Face
- the stationary scale, markings and readout of an instrument.
- Impulse
- a one-time momentum change, in N s.
- Mass
- resistance to velocity change, in kg.
- Needle
- the moving Sprite component, bound explicitly in Follow Native Velocity.
- Rack stack
- one column of weights in Weight Pattern; a denomination may use two stacks.
- Reading
- before/after snapshot taken within one accepted impulse.
- Return
- bring carts home from rest while keeping the selected settings.
- Velocity
- signed motion; right is positive.
- Weight
- a removable physical mass added to a cart’s base mass.