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SAT Subject Test: hysics
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1. An object that retains its overall shape - meaning that the particles that make up the rigid body stay in the same position relative to one another.
Pascals
Torque
Dot product
Rigid body
2. A unit for measuring angles; also called a "rad." 2p rad = 360º.
Maxima
Absolute zero
Wave
Radian
3. A wave that interferes with its own reflection so as to produce oscillations which stand still - rather than traveling down the length of the medium. Standing waves on a string with both ends tied down make up the harmonic series.
Simple harmonic oscillator
Tail
Entropy
Standing wave
4. The stable position of a system where the net force acting on the object is zero.
Mass
Weight
Strong nuclear force
Equilibrium position
5. When a solid - liquid - or gas changes into another phase of matter.
Latent heat of sublimation
Traveling waves
Electron
Phase change
6. The amount heat necessary to cause a substance to undergo a phase transition.
Meson
Latent heat of transformation
Mechanical energy
Third Law of Thermodynamics
7. 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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8. A neutrally charged particle that - along with protons - constitutes the nucleus of an atom.
Isolated system
Proton
Basis vector
Neutron
9. In the Bohr model of the atom - the state in which an electron has the least energy and orbits closest to the nucleus.
Standing wave
Scalar
Instantaneous velocity
Ground state
10. If two systems - A and B - are in thermal equilibrium and if B and C are also in thermal equilibrium - then systems A and C are necessarily in thermal equilibrium.
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
Kepler's Third Law
Period
Displacement
11. Linear momentum - p - commonly called "momentum" for short - is a vector quantity defined as the product of an object's mass - m - and its velocity - v.
Momentum
Decibel
Collision
Magnetic flux
12. 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.
Pressure
Absolute zero
Centripetal acceleration
Velocity
13. When a light ray strikes a surface - the angle of incidence is the angle between the incident ray and the normal.
Angle of incidence
Traveling waves
Ground state
Weight
14. The disorder of a system.
Radiation
Entropy
Mass number
System
15. The joule (J) is the unit of work and energy. A joule is 1 N · m or 1 kg · m2/s2.
Axis of rotation
Joule
Coefficient of static friction
Atom
16. Energy associated with an object's position in space - or configuration in relation to other objects. This is a latent form of energy - where the amount of potential energy reflects the amount of energy that potentially could be released as kinetic e
Focal point
Potential energy
Translational kinetic energy
Centripetal acceleration
17. The cancellation of one wave by another wave that is exactly out of phase with the first. Despite the dramatic name of this phenomenon - nothing is "destroyed" by this interference—the two waves emerge intact once they have passed each other.
Law of conservation of energy
Doppler shift
Torque
Destructive interference
18. Waves that oscillate in the same direction as the propagation of the wave. Sound is carried by longitudinal waves - since the air molecules move back and forth in the same direction the sound travels.
Spring constant
System
Diffraction grating
Longitudinal waves
19. A quantity that possesses a magnitude but not a direction. Mass and length are common examples.
Angular position
Rotational motion
Critical angle
Scalar
20. The building blocks of all matter - atoms are made up of a nucleus consisting of protons and neutrons - and a number of electrons that orbit the nucleus. An electrically neutral atom has as many protons as it has electrons.
Coefficient of linear expansion
Nuclear fission
Atom
Normal
21. An experiment by Ernest Rutherford that proved for the first time that atoms have nuclei.
Atomic number
Gold foil experiment
Gamma decay
Vector
22. 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.
Instantaneous velocity
Nuclear fusion
Angular position
Legs
23. The amount of heat necessary to transform a solid at a given temperature into a liquid of the same temperature - or the amount of heat needed to be removed from a liquid of a given temperature to transform it into a solid of the same temperature.
Normal
Unit vector
Angle of incidence
Latent heat of fusion
24. A body or set of bodies that we choose to analyze as a group.
Centripetal acceleration
Electron
Beta particle
System
25. Waves produced by a source that is moving with respect to the observer will seem to have a higher frequency and smaller wavelength if the motion is towards the observer - and a lower frequency and longer wavelength if the motion is away from the obse
Doppler shift
Translational motion
Hooke's Law
Frequency
26. With spherical mirrors - the center of the sphere of which the mirror is a part. All of the normals pass through it.
Angular acceleration
Center of curvature
Component
Conduction
27. A transverse traveling wave created by the oscillations of an electric field and a magnetic field. Electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light - m/s. Examples include microwaves - X rays - and visible light.
Angular position
Wave speed
Entropy
Electromagnetic wave
28. In reference to oscillation - amplitude is the maximum displacement of the oscillator from its equilibrium position. Amplitude tells how far an oscillator is swinging back and forth. In periodic motion - amplitude is the maximum displacement in each
Coefficient of kinetic friction
Cosine
Radiation
Amplitude
29. A force caused by the roughness of two materials in contact - deformations in the materials - and a molecular attraction between the materials. Frictional forces are always parallel to the plane of contact between two surfaces and opposite the direct
Radioactivity
Right-hand rule
Frictional force
Melting point
30. The number of hydrogen atoms in one gram of hydrogen - equal to . When counting the number of molecules in a gas - it is often convenient to count them in moles.
Axis of rotation
Pascals
Significant digits
Mole
31. The amount of heat necessary to transform a liquid at a given temperature into a gas of the same temperature - or the amount of heat needed to be taken away from a gas of a given temperature to transform it into a liquid of the same temperature.
Charles's Law
Latent heat of vaporization
Transverse waves
Gravitational constant
32. A coefficient that tells how much a material will expand or contract lengthwise when it is heated or cooled.
Wave speed
Coefficient of linear expansion
Newton's First Law
Maxima
33. 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.
Work
Orbit
Magnification
De Broglie wavelength
34. An electromagnetic wave of very high frequency.
Gamma ray
Equilibrium
Collision
Second Law of Thermodynamics
35. Objects that experience oscillatory or simple harmonic motion when distorted. Their motion is described by Hooke's Law.
Potential energy
Radiation
Angular frequency
Spring
36. In the graphical representation of vectors - the tail of the arrow is the blunt end (the end without a point).
Angle of refraction
Activity
Kinetic energy
Tail
37. A frequency - f - defined as the number of revolutions a rigid body makes in a given time interval. It is a scalar quantity commonly denoted in units of Hertz (Hz) or s-1.
Cross product
Angular frequency
Sublimation
Newton's Third Law
38. 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
Translational kinetic energy
Standing wave
Maxima
Distance
39. A constant in the numerator of a formula.
Translational kinetic energy
Rarefaction
Constant of proportionality
Pressure
40. A collision in which both kinetic energy and momentum are conserved.
Elastic collision
Inertial reference frame
Pulley
Specific heat
41. 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
Lenz's Law
Newton's Third Law
Conduction
42. The substance that is displaced as a wave propagates through it. Air is the medium for sound waves - the string is the medium of transverse waves on a string - and water is the medium for ocean waves. Note that even if the waves in a given medium tra
Snell's Law
Medium
Directly proportional
Internal energy
43. Atoms of the same element may have different numbers of neutrons and therefore different masses. Atoms of the same element but with different numbers of neutrons are called isotopes of the same element.
Isotope
Cross product
Beats
Induced current
44. 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
Neutrino
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Mutual Induction
System
45. The energy of a particle rotating around an axis.
Energy
Rotational kinetic energy
Beats
Wave
46. A property of a metal - the minimum frequency of electromagnetic radiation that is necessary to release photoelectrons from that metal.
Beats
Threshold frequency
Atom
Gold foil experiment
47. The cosine of an angle in a right triangle is equal to the length of the side adjacent to the angle divided by the length of the hypotenuse.
Axis of rotation
Angular displacement
Cosine
Normal
48. The force of gravity - F - between two particles of mass and - separated by a distance r - has a magnitude of - where G is the gravitational constant. The force is directed along the line joining the two particles.
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49. The energy of a particle moving in space. It is defined in s of a particle's mass - m - and velocity - v - as (1/2)mv2.
Inversely proportional
Celsius
Refraction
Translational kinetic energy
50. The force involved in beta decay that changes a proton to a neutron and releases an electron and a neutrino.
Scalar
Weak nuclear force
Weight
Gamma decay
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