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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What shapes are converging lenses?






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






3. This is the gauge pressure when under water.






4. What is the binding energy?






5. What does the term electric potential energy mean?






6. What is internal energy?






7. Condition for no rotation






8. Unit that means the same thing as Nm






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

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10. What is Huygen's Principle?






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

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






13. What is temperature?






14. What comprises gamma decay?






15. Continuity equation






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






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

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






19. What causes resistance?






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






21. 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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22. What is the difference between a motor and a generator?






23. Formula for the electric field between a pari of charged plates.






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

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25. How are velocity and speed different?






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






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






28. 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?






29. What is heat?






30. Energy of a SINGLE photon






31. Force in terms of pressure






32. What comprises alpha radiation?






33. 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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34. What is conservation of energy and what is its significance?






35. S.I. Unit of electric force






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






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






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






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






40. Unit of energy for electricity.






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






42. What is the energy equation if a force (friction) through a distance results in heat and thus a change in temperature?






43. What is the order of the electromagnetic spectrum?






44. Under what conditions is mechanical work positive?






45. What do batteries and generators produce?






46. State the significance of Young's Experiment.






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






48. What is the area under any PV curve?

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






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






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