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AP Physics

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the y intercept of the velocity time graph?






2. Mathematically what does centripetal force represent and how is centripetal force calculated?

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






4. What two entities comprise a vector?






5. In electrostatics - what takes the place of m and g in the formulae?

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6. When is sum of force (net force) NOT zero?

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7. What is temperature?






8. What is the relationship between voltage - current and resistance?

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9. What does the term electric potential energy mean?






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

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






12. What equation describes the distance that a horizontally launched projectile falls t seconds after it started moving?






13. What doesn't change (speed - frequency - or wavelength) - when light moves from one medium to another?






14. When are f - p - q - ho - hi - and M positive for mirrors?






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






16. What causes resistance?






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






18. What quantity stays the same for resistors in series?






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






20. What is the area under any PV curve?

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21. How is the net work of a system (gas) measured?






22. What is half life?






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

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24. When is the image negative for mirrors?

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






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






27. If you double the mass of one planet - triple the mass of another - and move them twice as far apart - what happens to the force of attraction between them?






28. When is sum of force (net force) zero?






29. What is an object placed when the distance between it and the mirror is positive?






30. What are three ways to increase the capacitance of a capacitor?






31. What kind of image do you get when the object is placed at the focus?






32. S.I. unit of torque






33. Under what conditions does entropy increase?






34. What is the direction of the centripetal acceleration?






35. What is force times the parallel diplacement?






36. What is transmutation?






37. What is heat?






38. 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?






39. When is the image negative for a lens?






40. What did Thompson discover?






41. What shape is a converging mirrors?






42. What do batteries and generators produce?






43. What is the relationship between energy - frequency - and wavelength in any wave?






44. What is an indication of a change in the internal energy?

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45. Gauge Pressure

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

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






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






49. What equation describes the speed of a dropped object 't' seconds after it started moving?

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50. State the significance of Young's Experiment.