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SAT Subject Test: hysics
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1. A positively charged particle that - along with the neutron - occupies the nucleus of the atom.
Absolute zero
Proton
Newton's Second Law
Work
2. 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.
Kinetic friction
Elastic collision
Neutrino
Latent heat of fusion
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.
Significant digits
Vector
Proton
Isolated system
4. A wedge or a slide. The dynamics of objects sliding down inclined planes is a popular topic on SAT II Physics.
Oscillation
Total internal reflection
Velocity
Inclined plane
5. The amount heat necessary to cause a substance to undergo a phase transition.
Hypotenuse
Node
Third Law of Thermodynamics
Latent heat of transformation
6. In a right triangle - the tangent of a given angle is the length of the side opposite the angle divided by the length of the side adjacent to the triangle.
Angular frequency
Kinematics
Doppler shift
Tangent
7. The points midway between nodes on a standing wave - where the oscillations are largest.
Coefficient of volume expansion
Cross product
Rutherford nuclear model
Antinode
8. The units of frequency - defined as inverse-seconds (1 Hz = 1 s-1). "Hertz" can be used interchangeably with "cycles per second."
Vector
Hertz (Hz)
Temperature
Rarefaction
9. 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.
Dot product
Velocity
Beta decay
Rutherford nuclear model
10. The number of digits that have been accurately measured. When combining several measurements in a formula - the resulting calculation can only have as many significant digits as the measurement that has the smallest number of significant digits.
Boiling point
Radiation
Heat transfer
Significant digits
11. For a gas held at constant pressure - temperature and volume are directly proportional.
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12. 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.
Destructive interference
Refracted ray
Atomic number
Elastic collision
13. The velocity at any given instant in time. To be contrasted with average velocity - which is a measure of the change in displacement over a given time interval.
Restoring force
Joule
Sine
Instantaneous velocity
14. A conserved scalar quantity associated with the state or condition of an object or system of objects. We can roughly define energy as the capacity for an object or system to do work. There are many different types of energy - such as kinetic energy -
Mutual Induction
Energy
Newton's Third Law
Kinetic energy
15. In the graphical representation of vectors - the tail of the arrow is the blunt end (the end without a point).
Uncertainty principle
Tail
Gravitational Potential Energy
Spring constant
16. 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.
Force
Real image
Velocity
Newton's Third Law
17. A wave that interferes with its own reflection so as to produce oscillations which stand still - rather than traveling down the length of the medium. Standing waves on a string with both ends tied down make up the harmonic series.
Electromagnetic induction
Decibel
Latent heat of sublimation
Standing wave
18. For two given media - the smallest angle of incidence at which total internal reflection occurs.
Critical angle
Mass
Neutrino
Center of curvature
19. A wave with wave crests that propagate down the length of the medium - in contrast to stationary standing waves. The velocity at which a crest propagates is called the wave speed.
Rutherford nuclear model
Reflection
Traveling waves
Meson
20. A constant - J · s - which is useful in quantum physics. A second constant associated with Planck's constant is .
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21. The building blocks of all matter - atoms are made up of a nucleus consisting of protons and neutrons - and a number of electrons that orbit the nucleus. An electrically neutral atom has as many protons as it has electrons.
Inelastic collision
Atom
Specific heat
Latent heat of sublimation
22. A device that breaks incoming light down into spectral rays - so that one can see the exact wavelength constituents of the light.
Diffraction grating
Spectroscope
Reflected ray
Radius of curvature
23. In oscillation - a cycle occurs when an object undergoing oscillatory motion completes a "round-trip." For instance - a pendulum bob released at angle has completed one cycle when it swings to and then back to again. In period motion - a cycle is the
Mass number
Cycle
Coherent light
Electromagnetic wave
24. The state of a nonrotating object upon whom the net torque acting is zero.
Inertia
Focal length
Equilibrium
Planck's constant
25. A property of a metal - the minimum frequency of electromagnetic radiation that is necessary to release photoelectrons from that metal.
Sine
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
Magnetic flux
Threshold frequency
26. A unit for measuring angles; also called a "rad." 2p rad = 360º.
Angular period
Atomic number
Radian
Gravitational constant
27. 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.
De Broglie wavelength
Amplitude
Angular velocity
Neutrino
28. A vector quantity - L - that is the rotational analogue of linear momentum. For a single particle - the angular momentum is the cross product of the particle's displacement from the axis of rotation and the particle's linear momentum - . For a rigid
Angular momentum
Work
Angular frequency
Latent heat of fusion
29. 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
Kinematics
Lenz's Law
Elastic collision
Right-hand rule
30. 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.
Radian
Angular period
Nuclear fusion
Reflected ray
31. A collision in which the colliding particles stick together.
Angular velocity
Third Law of Thermodynamics
Completely inelastic collision
Spectroscope
32. A frequency - f - defined as the number of revolutions a rigid body makes in a given time interval. It is a scalar quantity commonly denoted in units of Hertz (Hz) or s-1.
Doppler shift
Angular velocity
Motional emf
Angular frequency
33. A form of radioactivity where an excited atom releases a photon of gamma radiation - thereby returning to a lower energy state. The atomic structure itself does not change in the course of gamma radiation.
Gamma decay
Magnitude
Rotational motion
Motional emf
34. Essentially a restatement of energy conservation - it states that the change in the internal energy of a system is equal to the heat added plus the work done on the system.
Virtual image
Internal energy
Radiation
First Law of Thermodynamics
35. A transfer of thermal energy. We don't speak about systems "having" heat - but about their "transferring" heat - much in the way that dynamical systems don't "have" work - but rather "do" work.
Quark
Wave
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
Heat
36. 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
Amplitude
Kinetic theory of gases
Normal force
Frictional force
37. The five equations used to solve problems in kinematics in one dimension with uniform acceleration.
Isotope
Alpha decay
Kinematic equations
Nuclear fusion
38. 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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39. The amplification of one wave by another - identical wave of the same sign. Two constructively interfering waves are said to be "in phase."
Total internal reflection
Work
Constructive interference
Weber
40. Kinematics is the study and description of the motion of objects.
Significant digits
Kinematics
Thermal equilibrium
Alpha particle
41. States that the current induced in a circuit by a change in magnetic flux is in the direction that will oppose that change in flux. Using the right-hand rule - point your thumb in the opposite direction of the change in magnetic flux. The direction y
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42. An image created by a mirror or lens in such a way that light does not actually come from where the image appears to be.
Gold foil experiment
Radioactivity
Node
Virtual image
43. The time - T - required for a rigid body to complete one revolution.
Proton
Sound
Angular period
Universal gas constant
44. The ray of light that is refracted through a surface into a different medium.
Harmonic series
Activity
Refracted ray
Kepler's Second Law
45. Any vector can be expressed as the sum of two mutually perpendicular component vectors. Usually - but not always - these components are multiples of the basis vectors - and ; that is - vectors along the x-axis and y-axis. We define these two vectors
Component
Doppler shift
Equilibrium
Energy
46. In an interference or diffraction pattern - the places where there is the least light.
Latent heat of vaporization
Refraction
Angular frequency
Minima
47. The building blocks of all matter - quarks are the constituent parts of protons - neutrons - and mesons.
Quark
Neutrino
Displacement
Equilibrium position
48. The energy of a particle rotating around an axis.
Rotational kinetic energy
Conduction
Tension force
Normal force
49. Indicates how "bouncy" or "stiff" a spring is. More specifically - the spring constant - k - is the constant of proportionality between the restoring force exerted by the spring - and the spring's displacement from equilibrium. The greater the value
Loudness
Speed
Spring constant
Elastic collision
50. 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.
Kepler's First Law
Celsius
Tension force
Refraction
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