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SAT Subject Test: hysics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A property of a metal - the minimum frequency of electromagnetic radiation that is necessary to release photoelectrons from that metal.
Node
Bohr atomic model
Angular displacement
Threshold frequency
2. A vector quantity defined as the rate of change of the displacement vector with time. It is to be contrasted with speed - which is a scalar quantity for which no direction is specified.
Spring constant
Velocity
Nuclear fission
Minima
3. A system that no external net force acts upon. Objects within the system may exert forces upon one another - but they cannot receive any impulse from outside forces. Momentum is conserved in isolated systems.
Isolated system
Longitudinal waves
Latent heat of vaporization
Completely inelastic collision
4. Atoms of the same element may have different numbers of neutrons and therefore different masses. Atoms of the same element but with different numbers of neutrons are called isotopes of the same element.
Wave speed
Isotope
Nuclear fusion
Orbit
5. The number of cycles executed by a system in one second. Frequency is the inverse of period - f = 1/T. Frequency is measured in hertz - Hz.
Half
Weak nuclear force
Frequency
Axis of rotation
6. The spectrum containing all the different kinds of electromagnetic waves - ranging in wavelength and frequency.
Electromagnetic spectrum
Photoelectric effect
Vector
Sine
7. The stable position of a system where the net force acting on the object is zero.
Kinetic energy
Equilibrium position
Neutrino
Reflection
8. In an interference or diffraction pattern - the places where there is the most light.
Maxima
Translational motion
Antinode
Newton's First Law
9. The points of maximum negative displacement along a wave. They are the opposite of wave crests.
Trough
Latent heat of transformation
Gravitational Potential Energy
Oscillation
10. For a heat engine - the ratio of work done by the engine to heat intake. Efficiency is never 100%.
First Law of Thermodynamics
Efficiency
Tip
Diffraction
11. A constant in the numerator of a formula.
Bohr atomic model
Static friction
Chain reaction
Constant of proportionality
12. 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.
Latent heat of transformation
Strong nuclear force
Displacement
Diffraction grating
13. 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.
Inertia
Real image
Wave speed
Coefficient of static friction
14. Represented by R = 8.31 J/mol · K - the universal gas constant fits into the ideal gas law so as to relate temperature to the average kinetic energy of gas molecules.
Minima
Hypotenuse
Weber
Universal gas constant
15. A rigid body's resistance to being rotated. The moment of inertia for a single particle is MR2 - where M is the mass of the rigid body and R is the distance to the rotation axis. For rigid bodies - calculating the moment of inertia is more complicate
Michelson-Morley experiment
Restoring force
Moment of inertia
Angular acceleration
16. The coefficient of static friction - for two materials is the constant of proportionality between the normal force and the maximum force of static friction. It is always a number between zero and one.
Doppler shift
Kepler's Second Law
Conduction
Coefficient of static friction
17. 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.
Rutherford nuclear model
Latent heat of vaporization
Weber
Beats
18. A process that aligns a wave of light to oscillate in one dimension rather than two.
Orbit
Gravitational Potential Energy
Melting point
Polarization
19. The unit of magnetic flux - equal to one T · m2.
System
Weber
Diffraction grating
Polarization
20. The energy of the molecules that make up an object. It is related to heat - which is the amount of energy transferred from one object to another object that is a different temperature.
Angle of reflection
Nucleus
Thermal energy
Spring constant
21. A class of elementary particle whose mass is between that of a proton and that of an electron. A common kind of meson is the pion.
Acceleration
Meson
Moment of inertia
Quark
22. Linear momentum - p - commonly called "momentum" for short - is a vector quantity defined as the product of an object's mass - m - and its velocity - v.
Refracted ray
Power
Unit vector
Momentum
23. The effect of force on rotational motion.
Torque
Real image
Cycle
Vertex
24. A vector quantity - commonly denoted by the vector s - which reflects an object's change in spatial position. The displacement vector points from the object's starting position to the object's current position in space. If an object is moved from poi
Wave speed
Displacement
Mass number
Hertz (Hz)
25. An almost massless particle of neutral charge that is released along with a beta particle in beta decay.
Wave speed
Kepler's First Law
Neutrino
Decibel
26. The joule (J) is the unit of work and energy. A joule is 1 N · m or 1 kg · m2/s2.
Force
Electron
Joule
Hertz (Hz)
27. The amplification of one wave by another - identical wave of the same sign. Two constructively interfering waves are said to be "in phase."
Constructive interference
Phase change
Pitch
Ground state
28. 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.
Node
Gravitational constant
Sine
Reflection
29. The building blocks of all matter - quarks are the constituent parts of protons - neutrons - and mesons.
Minima
Coefficient of kinetic friction
Inclined plane
Quark
30. The force necessary to maintain a body in uniform circular motion. This force is always directed radially toward the center of the circle.
Medium
Weight
Coefficient of static friction
Centripetal force
31. An object is called radioactive if it undergoes radioactive decay.
Radioactivity
Hooke's Law
Translational kinetic energy
Decay constant
32. The bending of light as it passes from one medium to another. Light refracts toward the normal when going from a less dense medium into a denser medium and away from the normal when going from a denser medium into a less dense medium.
Unit vector
Decay constant
Doppler shift
Refraction
33. A rough approximation of how gases work - that is quite accurate in everyday conditions. According to the kinetic theory - gases are made up of tiny - round molecules that move about in accordance with Newton's Laws - and collide with one another and
Neutron number
Kinetic theory of gases
Isolated system
Sublimation
34. Heat transfer via electromagnetic waves.
Photoelectric effect
Free
Kinetic energy
Radiation
35. The sum of a system's potential and kinetic energy. In many systems - including projectiles - pulleys - pendulums - and motion on frictionless surfaces - mechanical energy is conserved. One important type of problem in which mechanical energy is not
Threshold frequency
Kelvin
Angular acceleration
Mechanical energy
36. The two shorter sides of a right triangle that meet at the right angle.
Critical angle
Legs
Principal axis
Reflected ray
37. The disorder of a system.
Translational motion
Entropy
Neutrino
Equilibrium
38. Also called a diverging lens - a lens that is thinner in the middle than at the edges. Concave lenses refract light away from a focal point.
Photon
De Broglie wavelength
Concave lens
Tip
39. 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
Maxima
Kelvin
Directly proportional
Coefficient of linear expansion
40. 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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41. The time - T - required for a rigid body to complete one revolution.
Spring constant
Translational motion
Period
Angular period
42. The position - of an object according to a co-ordinate system measured in s of the angle of the object from a certain origin axis. Conventionally - this origin axis is the positive x-axis.
Mole
Photoelectric effect
Deposition
Angular position
43. The center of a mirror or lens.
Vertex
Speed
Spectroscope
Angular position
44. Waves in which the medium moves in the direction perpendicular to the propagation of the wave. Waves on a stretched string - water waves - and electromagnetic waves are all examples of transverse waves.
Doppler shift
Transverse waves
Pulley
Reflected ray
45. For an oscillating spring - the restoring force exerted by the spring is directly proportional to the displacement. That is - the more the spring is displaced - the stronger the force that will pull toward the equilibrium position. This law is expres
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46. The movement of a rigid body's center of mass in space.
Translational motion
Transverse waves
Nuclear fusion
Simple harmonic oscillator
47. For two given media - the smallest angle of incidence at which total internal reflection occurs.
Sine
Reflect
Critical angle
System
48. A device that breaks incoming light down into spectral rays - so that one can see the exact wavelength constituents of the light.
Electron
Spectroscope
Threshold frequency
Inclined plane
49. 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.
Wave
Angular velocity
Latent heat of fusion
Newton's First Law
50. When two waves of slightly different frequencies interfere with one another - they produce a "beating" interference pattern that alternates between constructive (in-phase) and destructive (out-of-phase). In the case of sound waves - this sort of inte
Polarization
Beats
Doppler shift
Gravitational constant