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AP Physics

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1. Which kind of mirror always has a virtual image?






2. What are the three types of radiation?






3. What is the law of reflection?






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






5. What is the area under the acceleration versus time graph?






6. The 'V' is (rho)Vg






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






8. How are velocity and speed different?






9. What conditions are necessary to change the reflected ray's phase by 180°?

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






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






12. Which type of radiation has the lowest energy?






13. 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 bottom of the bowl?






14. What comprises alpha radiation?






15. Which type of radiation has the highest energy?






16. What does the pattern look like in a Young's Double Slit diffraction pattern?






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






18. What comprises gamma decay?






19. Define Snell's law.






20. What is the Bohr Model of the atom?






21. What do batteries and generators produce?






22. 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?






23. What is acceleration?






24. Under what conditions is mechanical work positive?






25. How can you tell when an engine is a Carnot Engine?

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26. What direction controls time in falling body and projectile motion problems?






27. What is the direction of the centripetal force?






28. What is the 1st law of thermodynamics as applied to gases?






29. What is an isothermal process - and what is its impact on the first law of thermodynamics?






30. What shape is a converging mirrors?






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






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






33. How length effect resistance?






34. What shape is a diverging lenses?






35. S.I. unit of momentum






36. 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?






37. How must the mediums light is traveling through be arranged so that the condition for the critical angle can exist?






38. What is an object placed when the distance between it and the mirror is positive?






39. What are three ways to increase the capacitance of a capacitor?






40. When light travels from LESS dense to a MORE dense mediums - how does the refracted ray bend in relation to the normal line?






41. What do you know about two objects that are launched at different horizontal velocities?






42. Formula for work as a charged particle travels across two charged plates






43. What is the potential energy of a charge in an electric field?






44. Unit that means the same thing as Nm






45. Formula for the electric field at point in space for a single point charge.






46. What is the area under the velocity time graph?






47. What is half life?






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






49. What does the pattern look like in a Young's Single Slit diffraction pattern?






50. What is temperature?