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AP Physics

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three rules needed for mirrors - since not all three work every time?






2. What is the electric field's magnitude inside of a container made from an electrical INSULATOR?






3. What is the direction of the centripetal force?






4. What equation describes the speed in the x-direction of a projectile 't' seconds after it started moving?






5. What is the energy equation if you see a height difference between two points in the problem?






6. What causes radioactivity?






7. What do you do with any vector that is not on either the x or y axis?






8. What two entities comprise a vector?






9. What is the relationship that describes the rate that work is done - or that energy is used?






10. What is the order of the visible range electromagnetic spectrum?






11. What did Rutherford discover?






12. S.I. unit of pressure






13. How are velocity and speed different?






14. Formula for work by a car that changes speed on a horizontal road.






15. What stays the same for capacitors in series?






16. What is work energy theorem and what is its significance?






17. What is the second law of thermodynamics?






18. Unit of electric field






19. What shape is a converging mirrors?






20. What is its impact on the first law of thermodynamics of an adiabatic process?






21. What is the component of 'mg' parallel to a slope?






22. What is the difference between the variable 'q' and 'Q?'?

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23. What conditions are necessary to change the reflected ray's phase by 180°?

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24. What stays the same for resistors or capacitors in parallel?






25. What is the binding energy?






26. What are the two forms of the ideal gas law?






27. What quantity is calculated from slope of the displacement versus time graph?






28. What is the 1st law of thermodynamics as applied to gases?






29. How is the centripetal force represented in a free body diagram?






30. What is meant by the terms system and environment?






31. What is half life?






32. Formula for work as a charged particle travels across two charged plates






33. Give an example of a transverse and a longitudinal wave.

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34. How is tube length and wavelength related for a tube that is closed on ONE end?






35. What is ionization energy and how does it compare to the work function?






36. Unit that means the same thing as Nm






37. How is a force's direction oriented compared to a bodies direction of motion to get a circular (curved) path of motion?






38. What is acceleration?






39. How length effect resistance?






40. How is tube length and wavelength related for a tube that is opened on both ends?






41. S.I. unit of work






42. What is the y intercept of the velocity time graph?






43. Condition for no rotation






44. What does light absorption involve?






45. What is the difference between reflection - refraction - and diffraction?






46. What is the photoelectric effect?






47. What is the derived equation for the ACCELERATION of gravity in terms of m and 'r' squared?






48. How does a wires composition effect resistance?

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49. What is the area under any PV curve?

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50. In uniform circular motion - how is tangential velocity calculated?