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AP Physics

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1. What is the photoelectric effect?






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






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






4. S.I. unit of gravitational force






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






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






7. What is the relationship between power - voltage and current?






8. What is the binding energy?






9. What is the order of the electromagnetic spectrum?






10. What is ionization energy and how does it compare to the work function?






11. How can total momentum be calculated?






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






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






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






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






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






17. What doesn't change (speed - frequency - or wavelength) - when light moves from one medium to another?






18. What stays the same for resistors or capacitors in parallel?






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






20. What is an isotope?






21. How does the speed change when the pressure is decreased?






22. Electric force felt by a charge due to another charge.






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






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






25. S.I. Unit of electric force






26. Under what conditions is heat positive?

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






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






29. How length effect resistance?






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

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31. Which type of radiation has the highest energy?






32. What is force times the perpendicular distance?






33. What is the relationship between energy - frequency - and wavelength in any wave?






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






35. How does temperature effect resistance?






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

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37. Under what conditions is heat negative?

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38. Under what conditions is mechanical work negative?






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






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






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






42. What happens at the critical angle?






43. What is Huygen's Principle?






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






45. When are f - p - q - ho - hi - and M positive for mirrors?






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






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

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48. What is the energy equation if a force (friction) through a distance results in heat and thus a change in temperature?






49. What equation describes the distance that a dropped object falls 't' seconds after it started moving?

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50. What comprises beta radiation?