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AP Physics

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1. How are velocity and speed different?






2. Define Snell's law.






3. How is a force's direction oriented compared to a bodies direction of motion to get a circular (curved) path of motion?






4. S.I. unit of momentum






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






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






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






8. Which type of radiation has the lowest energy?






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






10. What is needed for electromagnetic induction to occur?






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

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12. What is force times the perpendicular distance?






13. How is the direction of the force on a current carrying wire calculated?






14. Which kind of mirror cannot magnify an image?






15. What is heat?






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






17. 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?






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






19. S.I. unit of gravitational force






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






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






22. What is the energy equation for the change in temperature if it results from a loss in KE?

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23. How is tube length and wavelength related for a tube that is opened on both ends?






24. What do the period of pendulums and springs each depend on?






25. What do batteries and generators produce?






26. What is the photoelectric effect?






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






28. What is the binding energy?






29. How do you find the number of neutrons in an atom?






30. What is temperature?






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






32. What does the term electric potential energy mean?






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






34. What does the term potential difference mean?






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






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






37. What did Thompson discover?






38. Formula for work by a car that changes speed on a horizontal road.






39. How is the force on a charged particle in a magnetic field creating the path calculated?






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






41. What is the derived equation for the electric field in terms of q and r^2 ?

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






43. What is its impact on the first law of thermodynamics of an adiabatic process?






44. What is the second law of thermodynamics?






45. How length effect resistance?






46. What is force times the parallel diplacement?






47. Unit that means the same thing as Nm






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






49. Flow Rate






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