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SAT Subject Test: hysics
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1. An area of high air pressure that acts as the wave trough for sound waves. The spacing between successive rarefactions is the wavelength of sound - and the number of successive areas of rarefaction that arrive at the ear per second is the frequency -
Gamma decay
Rarefaction
Photoelectron
Maxima
2. A force caused by the roughness of two materials in contact - deformations in the materials - and a molecular attraction between the materials. Frictional forces are always parallel to the plane of contact between two surfaces and opposite the direct
Weber
Constant of proportionality
Frictional force
Total internal reflection
3. A wavelength - given by = h/mv - which is associated with matter. Louis de Broglie proposed the idea that matter could be treated as waves in 1923 and applied this theory successfully to small particles like electrons.
Mutual Induction
De Broglie wavelength
System
Restoring force
4. For two given media - the smallest angle of incidence at which total internal reflection occurs.
Electron
Critical angle
Latent heat of transformation
Hooke's Law
5. A vector of magnitude 1 along one of the coordinate axes. Generally - we take the basis vectors to be and - the vectors of length 1 along the x- and y-axes - respectively.
Gamma ray
Cycle
Basis vector
Mass
6. Two quantities are directly proportional if an increase in one results in a proportional increase in the other - and a decrease in one results in a proportional decrease in the other. In a formula defining a certain quantity - those quantities to whi
Mole
Conservation of Angular Momentum
Directly proportional
Half
7. With spherical mirrors - the center of the sphere of which the mirror is a part. All of the normals pass through it.
Maxima
Center of curvature
Decay constant
Neutron number
8. Two materials are in thermal equilibrium if they are at the same temperature.
Angle of refraction
Hooke's Law
Thermal equilibrium
Half
9. A mirror that is curved such that its center is closer to the viewer than the edges - such as a doorknob. Convex mirrors reflect light away from a focal point.
Mass defect
Hertz (Hz)
Convex mirror
Impulse
10. F = ma. The net force - F - acting on an object causes the object to accelerate - a. The magnitude of the acceleration is directly proportional to the net force on the object and inversely proportional to the mass - m - of the object.
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11. A unit for measuring angles; also called a "rad." 2p rad = 360º.
Diffraction grating
Alpha particle
Kinetic energy
Radian
12. The points on a standing wave where total destructive interference causes the medium to remain fixed at its equilibrium position.
Kinematic equations
Center of curvature
Angular displacement
Node
13. The disorder of a system.
Optics
Entropy
Magnitude
Destructive interference
14. The line that every particle in the rotating rigid body circles about.
Angle of incidence
Convection
Pressure
Axis of rotation
15. The points midway between nodes on a standing wave - where the oscillations are largest.
Rutherford nuclear model
Mole
Antinode
Reflected ray
16. A device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy by rotating a coil in a magnetic field; sometimes called a "dynamo."
Law of conservation of energy
Electric generator
Gravitational Potential Energy
Component
17. The movement of a rigid body's center of mass in space.
Margin of error
Static friction
Translational motion
Tangent
18. The points of maximum negative displacement along a wave. They are the opposite of wave crests.
Trough
Spectroscope
Electromagnetic wave
Oscillation
19. The bending of light at the corners of objects or as it passes through narrow slits or apertures.
Activity
Diffraction
Proton
Legs
20. An image created by a mirror or lens in such a way that light does actually come from where the image appears to be. If you place a screen in front of a real image - the image will be projected onto the screen.
Nucleus
Heat engine
Magnetic flux
Real image
21. The cancellation of one wave by another wave that is exactly out of phase with the first. Despite the dramatic name of this phenomenon - nothing is "destroyed" by this interference—the two waves emerge intact once they have passed each other.
Gamma ray
Heat
Destructive interference
Real image
22. The square of the amplitude of a sound wave is called the sound's loudness - or volume.
Loudness
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
Significant digits
Mutual Induction
23. For a gas held at constant pressure - temperature and volume are directly proportional.
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24. A particle - identical to an electron. Beta particles are ejected from an atom in the process of beta decay.
Beta particle
Speed
Frictional force
Diffraction grating
25. The amount of heat necessary to transform a solid at a given temperature into a liquid of the same temperature - or the amount of heat needed to be removed from a liquid of a given temperature to transform it into a solid of the same temperature.
Dispersion
Collision
Translational kinetic energy
Latent heat of fusion
26. The points of maximum displacement along a wave. In traveling waves - the crests move in the direction of propagation of the wave. The crests of standing waves - also called anti-nodes - remain in one place.
Planck's constant
Induced current
Crest
Electromagnetic spectrum
27. The ray of light that is refracted through a surface into a different medium.
Legs
Refracted ray
Virtual image
Focal length
28. A vector quantity - or vector - is an object possessing - and fully described by - a magnitude and a direction. Graphically a vector is depicted as an arrow with its magnitude given by the length of the arrow and its direction given by where the arro
Vector
Half
Calorie
Heat engine
29. Heat transfer via electromagnetic waves.
Transformer
Radiation
Rarefaction
Calorie
30. For a gas held at a constant temperature - pressure and volume are inversely proportional.
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31. A constant - - not to be confused with wavelength - that defines the speed at which a radioactive element undergoes decay. The greater is - the faster the element decays.
Alpha decay
Conservation of Angular Momentum
Decay constant
Virtual image
32. A positively charged particle that - along with the neutron - occupies the nucleus of the atom.
Nuclear fusion
Coefficient of static friction
Proton
Doppler shift
33. A sheet - film - or screen with a pattern of equally spaced slits. Typically the width of the slits and space between them is chosen to generate a particular diffraction pattern.
Equilibrium position
Diffraction grating
Scalar
Frictional force
34. The ray of light that is reflected from a mirror or other reflecting surface.
Weight
Equilibrium
Heat engine
Reflected ray
35. An object is called radioactive if it undergoes radioactive decay.
Boiling point
Index of refraction
Radioactivity
Basis vector
36. When a light ray strikes a surface - the angle of incidence is the angle between the incident ray and the normal.
Basis vector
Atom
Angle of incidence
Inelastic collision
37. A law - || = - which states that the induced emf is the change in magnetic flux in a certain time.
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38. A transverse traveling wave created by the oscillations of an electric field and a magnetic field. Electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light - m/s. Examples include microwaves - X rays - and visible light.
Work
Velocity
Electromagnetic wave
Cross product
39. A process that aligns a wave of light to oscillate in one dimension rather than two.
Alpha particle
Newton's Third Law
Polarization
Standing wave
40. A scalar quantity that tells us how fast an object is moving. It measures the rate of change in distance over time. Speed is to be contrasted with velocity in that there is no direction associated with speed.
Energy
Speed
Spectroscope
Loudness
41. A unit of measurement for energy on atomic levels. 1 eV = J.
Latent heat of sublimation
Angular velocity
Tail
Electronvolt
42. A constant - J · s - which is useful in quantum physics. A second constant associated with Planck's constant is .
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43. Kinematics is the study and description of the motion of objects.
Conservation of Angular Momentum
Restoring force
Kinematics
Normal force
44. The amplification of one wave by another - identical wave of the same sign. Two constructively interfering waves are said to be "in phase."
Crest
Superposition
Unit vector
Constructive interference
45. In an interference or diffraction pattern - the places where there is the least light.
Half
Minima
Polarization
De Broglie wavelength
46. The model of the atom according to which negatively charged electrons orbit a positively charged nucleus. This model was developed by Ernest Rutherford in light of the results from his gold foil experiment.
Equilibrium
Longitudinal waves
Hypotenuse
Rutherford nuclear model
47. A means of defining the direction of the cross product vector. To define the direction of the vector - position your right hand so that your fingers point in the direction of A - and then curl them around so that they point in the direction of B. Th
Magnitude
Right-hand rule
Destructive interference
Alpha decay
48. Two quantities are inversely proportional if an increase in one results in a proportional decrease in the other - and a decrease in one results in a proportional increase in the other. In a formula defining a certain quantity - those quantities to wh
Kinetic friction
Inversely proportional
First Law of Thermodynamics
Free
49. The constant of proportionality in Newton's Law of Gravitation. It reflects the proportion of the gravitational force and - the product of two particles' masses divided by the square of the bodies' separation. N · m2/kg2.
Dispersion
Gravitational constant
Heat transfer
Gravitational Potential Energy
50. The mass difference between a nucleus and the sum of the masses of the constituent protons and neutrons.
Mass defect
Kinetic friction
Heat engine
Rutherford nuclear model