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AP Physics

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1. What is the potential energy of a charge in an electric field?






2. State the significance of Young's Experiment.






3. When is the image negative for mirrors?


4. What conservation law dictates that the frequency of light cannot change as it travels between mediums?






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






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






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






8. What are the two rules for ray tracing in lenses that work all the time?






9. Force in terms of pressure






10. What is the general equation for motion down a slope and how does it change if the object is going up the slope?






11. Describe the relationship between Qh - Qc - and W in a heat engine?






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


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






14. Electric force felt by a charge due to another charge.






15. Unit that means the same thing as Nm






16. What is the formula relating emf and voltage?






17. What is the difference between a motor and a generator?






18. What quantity ADDS for resistors in series?






19. Condition for no rotation






20. This is used to determine the speed of a fluid when the pipe slopes up or down.


21. What is impulse?






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






23. What comprises alpha radiation?






24. Under what conditions is work by a system ( gas) negative?






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






26. What did Thompson discover?






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






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






29. Continuity equation






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






31. What is needed for electromagnetic induction to occur?






32. What is an isothermal process - and what is its impact on the first law of thermodynamics?






33. Unit of electric field






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






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






36. What is an isotope?






37. S.I. unit of torque






38. What is the energy of a photon?


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






40. What is temperature?






41. What is the second law of thermodynamics?






42. What forces charges to move?






43. What is the law of reflection?






44. Under what conditions is heat positive?


45. Gauge Pressure


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






47. Pressure of an open container at the opening.






48. What is the area under the acceleration versus time graph?






49. How does a wires composition effect resistance?


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