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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is temperature?






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






3. What is implied when an object is not accelerating in the x direction?






4. What is conservation of energy and what is its significance?






5. Under what conditions is heat negative?

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6. When is the image negative for a lens?






7. Unit of energy for electricity.






8. What is the binding energy?






9. Which type of lenses have a NEGATIVE focal length?






10. If you double the mass of one planet - triple the mass of another - and move them twice as far apart - what happens to the force of attraction between them?






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






12. What are the differences and similarities between transverse and longitudinal waves?

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13. What comprises alpha radiation?






14. What is the path of a charged particle in a magnetic field?






15. In a pendulum or spring - what are the displacement - velocity - PE and KE at the equilibrium position?






16. What is the direction of the centripetal force?






17. This is used to determine the speed of a fluid when the pipe slopes up or down.

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18. What does the term potential difference mean?






19. Condition for no rotation






20. What kind of image do you get when the object is placed at the focus?






21. What causes radioactivity?






22. What is the difference between atomic number and atomic mass number?






23. S.I. unit of magnetism






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






25. S.I. unit of work






26. What stays the same for capacitors in series?






27. What is work energy theorem and what is its significance?






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






29. How does a wires composition effect resistance?

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30. What causes resistance?






31. What is the y intercept of the velocity time graph?






32. What are the two rules for ray tracing in lenses that work all the time?






33. Under what conditions is mechanical work positive?






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

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35. In electrostatics - what takes the place of m and g in the formulae?

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36. What comprises beta radiation?






37. How are velocity and speed different?






38. What quantity stays the same for resistors in series?






39. S.I. unit of torque






40. Force in terms of pressure






41. What is force times the perpendicular distance?






42. Buoyancy






43. S.I. unit of flux






44. What is transmutation?






45. What conservation law dictates that the frequency of light cannot change as it travels between mediums?






46. What is the law of reflection?






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






48. Which kind of mirror cannot magnify an image?






49. S.I. unit of momentum






50. What equation describes the speed in the x-direction of a projectile 't' seconds after it started moving?






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