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SAT Subject Test: hysics
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1. The amount heat necessary to cause a substance to undergo a phase transition.
Boyle's Law
Moment of inertia
Kepler's Third Law
Latent heat of transformation
2. An image created by a mirror or lens in such a way that light does actually come from where the image appears to be. If you place a screen in front of a real image - the image will be projected onto the screen.
Period
Magnification
Energy
Real image
3. The time - T - required for a rigid body to complete one revolution.
Isolated system
Magnitude
Angular period
Sublimation
4. In radioactive substances - the number of nuclei that decay per second. Activity - A - will be larger in large samples of radioactive material - since there will be more nuclei.
Coefficient of kinetic friction
Third Law of Thermodynamics
Activity
Sound
5. The dot product of the area and the magnetic field passing through it. Graphically - it is a measure of the number and length of magnetic field lines passing through that area. It is measured in Webers (Wb).
Legs
Joule
Magnetic flux
Tension force
6. The emf created by the motion of a charge through a magnetic field.
Static friction
Tangent
Motional emf
Convex mirror
7. An almost massless particle of neutral charge that is released along with a beta particle in beta decay.
Angular acceleration
Sublimation
Neutrino
Electric generator
8. A collision in which the colliding particles stick together.
Atom
Photoelectron
Inelastic collision
Completely inelastic collision
9. The force that binds protons and neutrons together in the atomic nucleus.
Heat
Threshold frequency
Thermal equilibrium
Strong nuclear force
10. The force involved in beta decay that changes a proton to a neutron and releases an electron and a neutrino.
Weak nuclear force
Decibel
Latent heat of sublimation
Convection
11. A quantity that possesses a magnitude but not a direction. Mass and length are common examples.
Scalar
Compression
Angular velocity
Kinetic energy
12. Two materials are in thermal equilibrium if they are at the same temperature.
Thermal equilibrium
Focal length
Wavelength
Third Law of Thermodynamics
13. The joule (J) is the unit of work and energy. A joule is 1 N · m or 1 kg · m2/s2.
Basis vector
Joule
Latent heat of vaporization
Entropy
14. Life- The amount of time it takes for one-half of a radioactive sample to decay.
Boiling point
Half
Index of refraction
Collision
15. The mass difference between a nucleus and the sum of the masses of the constituent protons and neutrons.
Temperature
Wavelength
Radius of curvature
Mass defect
16. The application of kinematics to understand why objects move the way they do. More precisely - dynamics is the study of how forces cause motion.
Dynamics
Torque
Atom
Photoelectric effect
17. An area of high air pressure that acts as the wave trough for sound waves. The spacing between successive rarefactions is the wavelength of sound - and the number of successive areas of rarefaction that arrive at the ear per second is the frequency -
Rarefaction
Magnification
Faraday's Law
Coefficient of volume expansion
18. A measure of force per unit area. Pressure is measured in N/m2 or Pa.
Chain reaction
Concave mirror
Snell's Law
Pressure
19. The unit of magnetic flux - equal to one T · m2.
Concave mirror
Potential energy
Weber
Newton's First Law
20. The force between two surfaces moving relative to one another. The frictional force is parallel to the plane of contact between the two objects and in the opposite direction of the sliding object's motion.
Minima
Mole
Kinetic friction
Michelson-Morley experiment
21. A form of radioactive decay where a heavy element ejects a beta particle and a neutrino - becoming a lighter element in the process.
Vector
Distance
Beta decay
Boiling point
22. A vector quantity defined as the rate of change of the velocity vector with time.
Decibel
Celsius
Acceleration
Hypotenuse
23. A wavelength - given by = h/mv - which is associated with matter. Louis de Broglie proposed the idea that matter could be treated as waves in 1923 and applied this theory successfully to small particles like electrons.
De Broglie wavelength
Axis of rotation
Centripetal acceleration
Spring
24. A scalar quantity. If an object is moved from point A to point B in space along path AB - the distance that the object has traveled is the length of the path AB. Distance is to be contrasted with displacement - which is simply a measure of the distan
Centripetal force
Distance
Convection
Significant digits
25. A unit for measuring angles; also called a "rad." 2p rad = 360º.
Radian
Hertz (Hz)
Temperature
Induced current
26. When objects collide - each object feels a force for a short amount of time. This force imparts an impulse - or changes the momentum of each of the colliding objects. The momentum of a system is conserved in all kinds of collisions. Kinetic energy is
Right-hand rule
Amplitude
Collision
Second Law of Thermodynamics
27. A machine that operates by taking heat from a hot place - doing some work with that heat - and then exhausting the rest of the heat into a cool place. The internal combustion engine of a car is an example of a heat engine.
Axis of rotation
Thermal energy
Concave lens
Heat engine
28. The tendency of an object to remain at a constant velocity - or its resistance to being accelerated. Newton's First Law is alternatively called the Law of Inertia because it describes this tendency.
Virtual image
Doppler shift
Gravitational Potential Energy
Inertia
29. The unit for measuring pressure. One Pascal is equal to one Newton per meter squared - 1 Pa = 1 N/m2.
Centripetal force
Reflect
Pascals
Boyle's Law
30. A vector quantity defined as the rate of change of the displacement vector with time. It is to be contrasted with speed - which is a scalar quantity for which no direction is specified.
Ground state
Kepler's First Law
Law of conservation of energy
Velocity
31. The force necessary to maintain a body in uniform circular motion. This force is always directed radially toward the center of the circle.
Centripetal force
Simple harmonic oscillator
Induced current
Component
32. The building blocks of all matter - quarks are the constituent parts of protons - neutrons - and mesons.
Temperature
Quark
Latent heat of sublimation
Amplitude
33. An image created by a mirror or lens in such a way that light does not actually come from where the image appears to be.
Power
Virtual image
Weak nuclear force
Weber
34. The sum of a system's potential and kinetic energy. In many systems - including projectiles - pulleys - pendulums - and motion on frictionless surfaces - mechanical energy is conserved. One important type of problem in which mechanical energy is not
Nuclear fission
Isolated system
Dispersion
Mechanical energy
35. A property common to both vectors and scalars. In the graphical representation of a vector - the vector's magnitude is equal to the length of the arrow.
Doppler shift
Completely inelastic collision
Centripetal force
Magnitude
36. Essentially a restatement of energy conservation - it states that the change in the internal energy of a system is equal to the heat added plus the work done on the system.
Photoelectron
Dynamics
Inertia
First Law of Thermodynamics
37. The ray of light that is refracted through a surface into a different medium.
Speed
Snell's Law
Refracted ray
Static friction
38. A push or a pull that causes an object to accelerate.
Phase change
Angle of refraction
Internal energy
Force
39. Heat transfer via electromagnetic waves.
Half
Standing wave
Optics
Radiation
40. The path of each planet around the sun is an ellipse with the sun at one focus.
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41. When dealing with reflection or refraction - the incident ray is the ray of light before it strikes the reflecting or refracting surface.
Trough
Incident ray
Newton's First Law
Total internal reflection
42. In an interference or diffraction pattern - the places where there is the least light.
Photoelectric effect
Minima
Kinematic equations
Atomic number
43. A process that aligns a wave of light to oscillate in one dimension rather than two.
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Velocity
Boyle's Law
Polarization
44. Heat transfer by molecular collisions.
Coefficient of volume expansion
Electromagnetic wave
First Law of Thermodynamics
Conduction
45. Waves in which the medium moves in the direction perpendicular to the propagation of the wave. Waves on a stretched string - water waves - and electromagnetic waves are all examples of transverse waves.
Scalar
Kepler's Third Law
Transverse waves
Activity
46. Relates the angle of incidence to the angle of refraction: .
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47. A nuclear reaction that takes place only at very high temperatures. Two light atoms - often hydrogen - fuse together to form a larger single atom - releasing a vast amount of energy in the process.
Nuclear fusion
Direction
Angular acceleration
Normal force
48. Done when energy is transferred by a force. The work done by a force F in displacing an object by s is W = F · s.
Completely inelastic collision
Uniform circular motion
Work
Melting point
49. A small particle-like bundle of electromagnetic radiation.
Photon
Beta particle
Heat transfer
Constant of proportionality
50. A body or set of bodies that we choose to analyze as a group.
Restoring force
System
Concave mirror
Constructive interference
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