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1. What is the strong force?






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






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






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






5. What is needed for electromagnetic induction to occur?






6. What is the order of the visible range electromagnetic spectrum?






7. What is the law of reflection?






8. What two entities comprise a vector?






9. What is conservation of energy and what is its significance?






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






11. What is temperature?






12. What does upward slope on a displacement versus time graph imply about the velocity.






13. State the significance of Young's Experiment.






14. What is an isotope?






15. What causes resistance?






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






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






18. Under what conditions is mechanical work positive?






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






20. What is the second law of thermodynamics?






21. What is the Bohr Model of the atom?






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






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






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






25. Formula for the electric force felt by a charged particle in an electric field.






26. What is force times the parallel diplacement?






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






28. What quantity ADDS for resistors in series?






29. Which type of radiation has the highest energy?






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

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31. 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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32. What is heat?






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

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

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35. What happens at the critical angle?






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






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






38. Buoyancy






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






40. S.I. unit of frictional force






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






42. How does the closed right hand rule work in electromagnetic induction?

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43. S.I. unit of power






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






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

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46. When is the image negative for mirrors?

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47. S.I. unit of Flow rate






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






49. What is a key requirement in order for work to be done?






50. Which kind of mirror can show a real image?







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