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SAT Subject Test: hysics

Subjects : sat, science, physics
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1. States that the current induced in a circuit by a change in magnetic flux is in the direction that will oppose that change in flux. Using the right-hand rule - point your thumb in the opposite direction of the change in magnetic flux. The direction y

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2. With spherical mirrors - the radius of the sphere of which the mirror is a part.






3. 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.






4. For a reflected light ray - . In other words - a ray of light reflects of a surface in the same plane as the incident ray and the normal - and at an angle to the normal that is equal to the angle between the incident ray and the normal.






5. Relates the angle of incidence to the angle of refraction: .

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6. The ray of light that is refracted through a surface into a different medium.






7. A system with many parts in periodic - or repetitive - motion. The oscillations in one part cause vibrations in nearby parts.






8. The position - of an object according to a co-ordinate system measured in s of the angle of the object from a certain origin axis. Conventionally - this origin axis is the positive x-axis.






9. The amount of energy that metal must absorb before it can release a photoelectron from the metal.






10. The experience of being in free fall. If you are in a satellite - elevator - or other free-falling object - then you have a weight of zero Newtons relative to that object.






11. An experiment by Ernest Rutherford that proved for the first time that atoms have nuclei.






12. A rough approximation of how gases work - that is quite accurate in everyday conditions. According to the kinetic theory - gases are made up of tiny - round molecules that move about in accordance with Newton's Laws - and collide with one another and






13. A mirror that is curved such that its center is closer to the viewer than the edges - such as a doorknob. Convex mirrors reflect light away from a focal point.






14. A measurement of a body's inertia - or resistance to being accelerated.






15. For a gas held at a constant temperature - pressure and volume are inversely proportional.

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16. A vector of magnitude 1 along one of the coordinate axes. Generally - we take the basis vectors to be and - the vectors of length 1 along the x- and y-axes - respectively.






17. A form of vector multiplication - where two vectors are multiplied to produce a scalar. The dot product of two vectors - A and B - is expressed by the equation A · B = AB cos .






18. The force necessary to maintain a body in uniform circular motion. This force is always directed radially toward the center of the circle.






19. The center of an atom - where the protons and neutrons reside. Electrons then orbit this nucleus.






20. An object at rest remains at rest - unless acted upon by a net force. An object in motion remains in motion - unless acted upon by a net force.

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21. A quantity that possesses a magnitude but not a direction. Mass and length are common examples.






22. Energy associated with the state of motion. The translational kinetic energy of an object is given by the equation .






23. The property of a vector that distinguishes it from a scalar: while scalars have only a magnitude - vectors have both a magnitude and a direction. When graphing vectors in the xy-coordinate space - direction is usually given by the angle measured cou






24. The speed at which a wave crest or trough propagates. Note that this is not the speed at which the actual medium (like the stretched string or the air particles) moves.






25. The energy associated with the configuration of bodies attracted to each other by the gravitational force. It is a measure of the amount of work necessary to get the two bodies from a chosen point of reference to their present position. This point of






26. In a right triangle - the sine of a given angle is the length of the side opposite the angle divided by the length of the hypotenuse.






27. Life- The amount of time it takes for one-half of a radioactive sample to decay.






28. The net change - - in a point's angular position - . It is a scalar quantity.






29. The points of maximum displacement along a wave. In traveling waves - the crests move in the direction of propagation of the wave. The crests of standing waves - also called anti-nodes - remain in one place.






30. The energy of the molecules that make up an object. It is related to heat - which is the amount of energy transferred from one object to another object that is a different temperature.






31. The time - T - required for a rigid body to complete one revolution.






32. A wedge or a slide. The dynamics of objects sliding down inclined planes is a popular topic on SAT II Physics.






33. A form of vector multiplication - where two vectors are multiplied to produce a third vector. The cross product of two vectors - A and B - separated by an angle - - is - where is a unit vector perpendicular to both A and B. To deine which direction






34. 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.






35. The separation of different color light via refraction.






36. Indicates how "bouncy" or "stiff" a spring is. More specifically - the spring constant - k - is the constant of proportionality between the restoring force exerted by the spring - and the spring's displacement from equilibrium. The greater the value






37. An area of high air pressure that acts as the wave crest for sound waves. The spacing between successive compressions is the wavelength of sound - and the number of successive areas of compression that arrive at the ear per second is the frequency -






38. An object that moves about a stable equilibrium point and experiences a restoring force that is directly proportional to the oscillator's displacement.






39. A principle derived by Werner Heisenberg in 1927 that tells us that we can never know both the position and the momentum of a particle at any given time.






40. The number of cycles executed by a system in one second. Frequency is the inverse of period - f = 1/T. Frequency is measured in hertz - Hz.






41. The bending of light at the corners of objects or as it passes through narrow slits or apertures.






42. An experiment in 1879 that showed that the speed of light is constant to all observers. Einstein used the results of this experiment as support for his theory of special relativity.






43. In oscillation - a cycle occurs when an object undergoing oscillatory motion completes a "round-trip." For instance - a pendulum bob released at angle has completed one cycle when it swings to and then back to again. In period motion - a cycle is the






44. Given the period - T - and semimajor axis - a - of a planet's orbit - the ratio is the same for every planet.

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45. There are a few versions of this law. One is that heat flows spontaneously from hot to cold - but not in the reverse direction. Another is that there is no such thing as a 100% efficient heat engine. A third states that the entropy - or disorder - of






46. A vector quantity - L - that is the rotational analogue of linear momentum. For a single particle - the angular momentum is the cross product of the particle's displacement from the axis of rotation and the particle's linear momentum - . For a rigid






47. The process by which a solid turns directly into gas - because it cannot exist as a liquid at a certain pressure.






48. The energy of a particle rotating around an axis.






49. A law - || = - which states that the induced emf is the change in magnetic flux in a certain time.

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50. 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.







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