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AP Physics

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1. How is the force on a charged particle in a magnetic field creating the path calculated?






2. How is sum of force (net force) depicted in a free body diagram?






3. What is temperature?






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






5. 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?






6. Energy of a SINGLE photon






7. S.I. unit of every kind of energy






8. How is a force's direction oriented compared to a bodies direction of motion to get a circular (curved) path of motion?






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






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






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






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






13. How can you tell when an engine is a Carnot Engine?

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14. Define Refraction






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






16. What are the three types of radiation?






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






18. When is the image negative for mirrors?

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19. Buoyancy






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






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






22. What is Huygen's Principle?






23. What is the difference between atomic number and atomic mass number?






24. Continuity equation






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






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






27. How can total momentum be calculated?






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






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

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






31. What did Thompson discover?






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






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

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34. What comprises alpha radiation?






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






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






37. What is the second law of thermodynamics?






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






39. What kind of mirror has a positive focus?






40. How does thickness effect resistance?






41. What is the difference between emf and voltage?






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






43. Which type of radiation has the highest energy?






44. What shapes are converging lenses?






45. Define Snell's law.






46. S.I. Unit of electric force






47. S.I. unit of Flow rate






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






49. What does light absorption involve?






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