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SAT Subject Test: hysics

Subjects : sat, science, physics
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1. In reference to oscillation - amplitude is the maximum displacement of the oscillator from its equilibrium position. Amplitude tells how far an oscillator is swinging back and forth. In periodic motion - amplitude is the maximum displacement in each






2. The name of an electron released from the surface of a metal due to the photoelectric effect.






3. For a gas held at a constant temperature - pressure and volume are inversely proportional.

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4. The unit for measuring pressure. One Pascal is equal to one Newton per meter squared - 1 Pa = 1 N/m2.






5. The tendency of an object to remain at a constant velocity - or its resistance to being accelerated. Newton's First Law is alternatively called the Law of Inertia because it describes this tendency.






6. Relates the angle of incidence to the angle of refraction: .

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7. The force that binds protons and neutrons together in the atomic nucleus.






8. For a gas held at constant pressure - temperature and volume are directly proportional.

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9. The separation of different color light via refraction.






10. The standing wave with the lowest frequency that is supported by a string with both ends tied down is called the fundamental - or resonance - of the string. The wavelength of the fundamental is twice the length of the string - .






11. 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






12. A nuclear reaction that takes place only at very high temperatures. Two light atoms - often hydrogen - fuse together to form a larger single atom - releasing a vast amount of energy in the process.






13. A vector quantity defined as the product of the force acting on a body multiplied by the time interval over which the force is exerted.






14. An object that retains its overall shape - meaning that the particles that make up the rigid body stay in the same position relative to one another.






15. Energy associated with the state of motion. The translational kinetic energy of an object is given by the equation .






16. A device made of two coils - which converts current of one voltage into current of another voltage. In a step-up transformer - the primary coil has fewer turns than the secondary - thus increasing the voltage. In a step-down transformer - the seconda






17. A process that aligns a wave of light to oscillate in one dimension rather than two.






18. The temperature at which a material will change phase from liquid to gas or gas to liquid.






19. A unit for measuring angles; also called a "rad." 2p rad = 360º.






20. A scale for measuring temperature - defined such that 0K is the lowest theoretical temperature a material can have. 273K = 0ºC.






21. The angle between a refracted ray and the line normal to the surface.






22. The speed at which a wave crest or trough propagates. Note that this is not the speed at which the actual medium (like the stretched string or the air particles) moves.






23. A principle derived by Werner Heisenberg in 1927 that tells us that we can never know both the position and the momentum of a particle at any given time.






24. To every action - there is an equal and opposite reaction. If an object A exerts a force on another object B - B will exert on A a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force exerted by A.

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25. The building blocks of all matter - quarks are the constituent parts of protons - neutrons - and mesons.






26. A coefficient that tells how much a material will expand or contract lengthwise when it is heated or cooled.






27. The phenomenon of light bouncing off a surface - such as a mirror.






28. A scale for measuring temperature - defined such that water freezes at 0ºC and boils at 100ºC. 0ºC = 273 K.






29. A form of vector multiplication - where two vectors are multiplied to produce a scalar. The dot product of two vectors - A and B - is expressed by the equation A · B = AB cos .






30. The amount of heat necessary for a material undergoing sublimation to make a phase change from gas to solid or solid to gas - without a change in temperature.






31. The path of each planet around the sun is an ellipse with the sun at one focus.

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32. When electromagnetic radiation shines upon a metal - the surface of the metal releases energized electrons. The way in which these electrons are released contradicts classical theories of electromagnetic radiation and supports the quantum view accord






33. 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.






34. Body diagram- Illustrates the forces acting on an object - drawn as vectors originating from the center of the object.






35. The longest side of a right triangle - opposite to the right angle.






36. The experience of being in free fall. If you are in a satellite - elevator - or other free-falling object - then you have a weight of zero Newtons relative to that object.






37. Heat transfer via electromagnetic waves.






38. Light such that all of the associated waves have the same wavelength and are in phase.






39. 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.






40. In the graphical representation of vectors - the tip of the arrow is the pointy end.






41. The energy of a particle rotating around an axis.






42. A wedge or a slide. The dynamics of objects sliding down inclined planes is a popular topic on SAT II Physics.






43. 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






44. In radioactive substances - the number of nuclei that decay per second. Activity - A - will be larger in large samples of radioactive material - since there will be more nuclei.






45. Heat transfer by molecular collisions.






46. Two materials are in thermal equilibrium if they are at the same temperature.






47. The phenomenon by which light traveling from a high n to a low n material will reflect from the optical interface if the incident angle is greater than the critical angle.






48. A reference frame in which Newton's First Law is true. Two inertial reference frames move at a constant velocity relative to one another. According to the first postulate of Einstein's theory of special relativity - the laws of physics are the same i






49. A unit of force: 1 N is equivalent to a 1 kg · m/s2.






50. The amount of heat necessary to transform a liquid at a given temperature into a gas of the same temperature - or the amount of heat needed to be taken away from a gas of a given temperature to transform it into a liquid of the same temperature.







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