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AP Physics

Subjects : science, ap, physics
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the component of 'mg' parallel to a slope?






2. What is force times time?






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






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






5. What comprises gamma decay?






6. What is the electric field's magnitude inside of a container made from an electrical CONDUCTOR?






7. What is half life?






8. Under what conditions is mechanical work negative?






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

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






11. Unit of energy for electricity.






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

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13. Force in terms of pressure






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






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

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16. What is force times the parallel diplacement?






17. What are the three types of radiation?






18. When is a normal force present - what is its direction?






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






20. What is the strong force?






21. S.I. unit of Flow rate






22. What is the relationship between power - voltage and current?






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






24. What is the path of a charged particle in a magnetic field?






25. What is the horizontal acceleration of projectiles?






26. Buoyancy






27. What causes resistance?






28. What did Thompson discover?






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

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30. What do you know about two objects that are launched at different horizontal velocities?






31. What happens at the critical angle?






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






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






34. What is heat?






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






36. What is implied when an object is not accelerating in the x direction?






37. What comprises alpha radiation?






38. What is Huygen's Principle?






39. S.I. unit of power






40. What is impulse?






41. Under what conditions is mechanical work positive?






42. How must the mediums light is traveling through be arranged so that the condition for the critical angle can exist?






43. 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?






44. Define Snell's law.






45. What is the direction of the centripetal acceleration?






46. What is electromagnetic induction?






47. Which kind of lens always has a virtual image?






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






49. What are the differences and similarities between transverse and longitudinal waves?

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50. What is mass energy equivalence?