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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the electric field's magnitude inside of a container made from an electrical INSULATOR?






2. What shape is a diverging mirror?






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

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4. What does the pattern look like in a Young's Single Slit diffraction pattern?






5. What is the energy of a photon?

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6. Which type of radiation has the lowest energy?






7. What is the Bohr Model of the atom?






8. S.I. unit of Flow rate






9. What is the energy equation if you see a particle accelerated perpendicular to two charged plates - or the problem states that the particle is accelerated through a potential difference?

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10. What happens at the critical angle?






11. What is the horizontal acceleration of projectiles?






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






13. Which kind of mirror always has a virtual image?






14. What is mass energy equivalence?






15. How can total momentum be calculated?






16. Which type of radiation has the highest energy?






17. If you have two charges - and you double one charge and triple the other - and move them twice as far apart - what happens to the force of attraction / repulsion between them?

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18. A ball rolls inside a salad bowl. The ball is released along the top edge and rolls down before climbing to the same height on the opposite side of the bowl. What is the direction of the acceleration of the ball when it at the bottom of the bowl?






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






20. Unit that means the same thing as Nm






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






22. Under what conditions is mechanical work negative?






23. How is the magnitude of the force on a current carrying wire calculated?

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24. What two things must be true for a positive magnification?






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






26. What forces charges to move?






27. What causes resistance?






28. Formula for the electric field at point in space for a single point charge.






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






30. What is internal energy?






31. Under what conditions is heat positive?

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32. What is the relationship between speed - frequency - and wavelength?






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






34. What do the period of pendulums and springs each depend on?






35. What is an adiabatic process?






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






37. Under what conditions does entropy increase?






38. What comprises beta radiation?






39. What is the difference between elastic and inelastic collisions? State the relevant equations for each.

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40. What does light absorption involve?






41. The 'V' is (rho)Vg






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

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43. Under what conditions is mechanical work positive?






44. What does the term potential difference mean?






45. What is electromagnetic induction?






46. What is half life?






47. What are 2 key differences between electric force and gravitational force?

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48. Average kinetic energy of an ideal gas's SINGLE molecule.






49. What is the second law of thermodynamics?






50. What direction controls time in falling body and projectile motion problems?







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