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AP Physics

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1. When light travels from MORE dense to LESS dense mediums - how does the refracted ray bend in relation to the normal line?






2. What kind of mirror has a positive focus?






3. What cause an electromagnetic wave - and what makes the wave propagate indefinitely even in a vacuum?






4. What is the energy equation for the change in temperature if it results from a loss in KE?


5. Condition for no rotation






6. What is the impact on the first law of thermodynamics for an isothermal process?






7. What is the Bohr Model of the atom?






8. Under what conditions is heat positive?


9. Define Snell's law.






10. S.I. unit of momentum






11. In a pendulum or spring - what are the displacement - velocity - PE and KE at the equilibrium position?






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






13. What is transmutation?






14. What kind of capacitor circuit adds to find the total capacitance?






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






16. What shape is a converging mirrors?






17. When is the image negative for a lens?






18. What shape is a diverging lenses?






19. What forces charges to move?






20. What force is always present - and what is its equation?






21. When light travels from LESS dense to a MORE dense mediums - how does the refracted ray bend in relation to the normal line?






22. How much work is the work done on an object moving in a circle? Why?






23. What is the horizontal acceleration of projectiles?






24. Energy of a SINGLE photon






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






26. What is the law of reflection?






27. What shapes are converging lenses?






28. What is the area under any PV curve?


29. What is implied when an object is not accelerating in the y direction?






30. S.I. unit of power






31. What is half life?






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






33. What is heat?






34. What shape is a diverging mirror?






35. What is Huygen's Principle?






36. How do you find the number of neutrons in an atom?






37. S.I. Unit of electric force






38. How is the force on a charged particle in a magnetic field creating the path calculated?






39. How does the speed change when the pressure is decreased?






40. This is the gauge pressure when under water.






41. Formula for the potential difference of a point charge as compared to infinity.






42. What is temperature?






43. What stays the same for capacitors in series?






44. Unit of electric field






45. What does light absorption involve?






46. In a pendulum or spring - what are the displacement - velocity - PES - and K at maximum displacement?






47. What is the work done on a charged particle by the magnetic field? Why?






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






49. Which kind of mirror can show a real image?






50. Define diffraction