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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. S.I. unit of gravitational force






2. What is the difference between emf and voltage?






3. How can total momentum be calculated?






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






5. What is half life?






6. What is an indication of a change in the internal energy?

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






8. What does the term electric potential energy mean?






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






10. The speed of a ball when it lands at the same height it was thrown from.






11. What is the energy equation if you see a height difference between two points in the problem?






12. Average kinetic energy of an ideal gas's SINGLE molecule.






13. What is an isotope?






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






15. What is the derived equation for the ACCELERATION of gravity in terms of m and 'r' squared?






16. What quantity ADDS for resistors in series?






17. What is acceleration?






18. What is the relationship between voltage - current and resistance?

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19. What is the strong force?






20. What shape is a converging mirrors?






21. What does light emission involve?






22. What is the work done on a charged particle by the magnetic field? Why?






23. What is the relationship between speed - frequency - and wavelength?






24. What is force times the parallel diplacement?






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






26. What is the photoelectric effect?






27. What do you do with any vector that is not on either the x or y axis?






28. Condition for no rotation






29. How is the centripetal force represented in a free body diagram?






30. What is the relationship that describes the rate that work is done - or that energy is used?






31. A ball rolls inside a salad bowl. The ball is released along the top edge and rolls down before climbing to the same height on the opposite side of the bowl. What is the direction of the acceleration of the ball when it at the top edge of the bowl?






32. In uniform circular motion - how is tangential velocity calculated?






33. S.I. unit of frictional force






34. What two things must be true for a positive magnification?






35. What is implied when an object is not accelerating in the y direction?






36. What is meant by the terms system and environment?






37. Under what conditions is mechanical work positive?






38. What is the formula relating emf and voltage?






39. In a pendulum or spring - what are the displacement - velocity - PES - and K at maximum displacement?






40. What does upward slope on a displacement versus time graph imply about the velocity.






41. S.I. unit of magnetism






42. Describe the relationship between Qh - Qc - and W in a heat engine?






43. S.I. unit of flux






44. What is the energy of a photon?

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45. Give an example of a transverse and a longitudinal wave.

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46. What is the difference between the variable 'q' and 'Q?'?

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47. How much work is the work done on an object moving in a circle? Why?






48. What is the energy equation if you see a particle accelerated perpendicular to two charged plates - or the problem states that the particle is accelerated through a potential difference?

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49. What makes an image 'real?'






50. What is the difference between a motor and a generator?







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