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AP Physics

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






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






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






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






5. What is the law of reflection?






6. What is the actual movement of charges - and how is it measured?






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






8. What did Rutherford discover?






9. What is force times the perpendicular distance?






10. What equation describes the distance that a horizontally launched projectile falls t seconds after it started moving?






11. What does the term electric potential energy mean?






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






13. What do batteries and generators produce?






14. State the significance of Young's Experiment.






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






16. Define Snell's law.






17. Unit of energy for electricity.






18. What are the three rules needed for mirrors - since not all three work every time?






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






20. S.I. unit of work






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






22. What forces charges to move?






23. How is the magnitude of the force on a current carrying wire calculated?

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24. What is the component of 'mg' parallel to a slope?






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






26. Under what conditions is work by a system ( gas) positive?






27. What is Huygen's Principle?






28. How does impulse relate to force?






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






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






31. How does thickness effect resistance?






32. How can total momentum be calculated?






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

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34. When is the image negative for a lens?






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






36. Under what conditions is heat positive?

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37. Formula for the potential difference of a point charge as compared to infinity.






38. What is the name given to the distance between the pivot point and applied perpendicular force?






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






40. What is the area under any PV curve?

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41. What are the three types of radiation?






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






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






44. What equation describes the speed of a dropped object 't' seconds after it started moving?

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45. S.I. unit of centripetal force






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






47. Condition for no rotation






48. What causes radioactivity?






49. What is the energy of a photon?

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