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SAT Subject Test: hysics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. For a gas held at constant pressure - temperature and volume are directly proportional.
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2. A push or a pull that causes an object to accelerate.
Mass number
Diffraction grating
Force
Half
3. In an interference or diffraction pattern - the places where there is the least light.
Radiation
Minima
Mass defect
Absolute zero
4. The coefficient of static friction - for two materials is the constant of proportionality between the normal force and the maximum force of static friction. It is always a number between zero and one.
Instantaneous velocity
Spring
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
Coefficient of static friction
5. The process by which a gas turns directly into a solid because it cannot exist as a liquid at certain pressures.
Deposition
Coherent light
Component
Radius of curvature
6. 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.
Latent heat of transformation
Pendulum
Crest
Refraction
7. A wave on a string that is tied to a pole at one end will reflect back toward its source - producing a wave that is the mirror-image of the original and which travels in the opposite direction.
Reflect
Impulse
Coefficient of volume expansion
Medium
8. A logorithmic unit for measuring the volume of sound - which is the square of the amplitude of sound waves.
Wave speed
Decibel
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
Angular acceleration
9. A vector quantity defined as the rate of change of the velocity vector with time.
Traveling waves
Index of refraction
Acceleration
Potential energy
10. The temperature at which a material will change phase from liquid to gas or gas to liquid.
Boiling point
Coefficient of static friction
Angle of incidence
Kepler's First Law
11. Life- The amount of time it takes for one-half of a radioactive sample to decay.
Compression
Centripetal acceleration
Coherent light
Half
12. 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.
Destructive interference
Atom
Magnitude
Newton's Second Law
13. A constant - - not to be confused with wavelength - that defines the speed at which a radioactive element undergoes decay. The greater is - the faster the element decays.
Angular velocity
Decay constant
Isotope
Neutron
14. The path of each planet around the sun is an ellipse with the sun at one focus.
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15. The line that every particle in the rotating rigid body circles about.
Strong nuclear force
Axis of rotation
Unit vector
Ground state
16. The principle by which the displacements from different waves traveling in the same medium add up. Superposition is the basis for interference.
Superposition
Cross product
Maxima
Right-hand rule
17. 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.
Thermal equilibrium
De Broglie wavelength
Coherent light
Second Law of Thermodynamics
18. In a right triangle - the tangent of a given angle is the length of the side opposite the angle divided by the length of the side adjacent to the triangle.
Angular momentum
Tangent
Radiation
Michelson-Morley experiment
19. 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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20. A nuclear reaction in which a high-energy neutron bombards a heavy - unstable atomic nucleus - causing it to split into two smaller nuclei - and releasing some neutrons and a vast amount of energy at the same time
Kinetic energy
Nuclear fission
Mass
Decay constant
21. The number of digits that have been accurately measured. When combining several measurements in a formula - the resulting calculation can only have as many significant digits as the measurement that has the smallest number of significant digits.
Significant digits
Mole
Radian
Pascals
22. 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
Heat
Work function
Nuclear fusion
Cycle
23. A particle - identical to an electron. Beta particles are ejected from an atom in the process of beta decay.
Boyle's Law
Lenz's Law
Threshold frequency
Beta particle
24. Relates the angle of incidence to the angle of refraction: .
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25. 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.
Latent heat of vaporization
Polarization
Rutherford nuclear model
Angular acceleration
26. 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 -
Heat transfer
Free
Compression
Rutherford nuclear model
27. The mass difference between a nucleus and the sum of the masses of the constituent protons and neutrons.
Angular velocity
Concave lens
Photoelectron
Mass defect
28. A measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules in a system. Temperature is related to heat by the specific heat of a given substance.
Basis vector
Velocity
Temperature
Calorie
29. Light such that all of the associated waves have the same wavelength and are in phase.
Oscillation
Coherent light
Weber
Hooke's Law
30. 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.
Newton's Second Law
Isotope
Axis of rotation
Second Law of Thermodynamics
31. The bending of light at the corners of objects or as it passes through narrow slits or apertures.
Kinematics
Inertial reference frame
Pitch
Diffraction
32. The reaction force of the ground - a table - etc. - when an object is placed upon it. The normal force is a direct consequence of Newton's Third Law: when an object is placed on the ground - the ground pushes back with the same force that it is pushe
Weak nuclear force
Normal force
Latent heat of sublimation
Pendulum
33. 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.
Weightlessness
Uncertainty principle
Orbit
Bohr atomic model
34. 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.
Magnitude
Normal
Uncertainty principle
Sine
35. 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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36. A number - Z - associated with the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. Every element can be defined in s of its atomic number - since every atom of a given element has the same number of protons.
Longitudinal waves
Atomic number
Period
Torque
37. The force that causes simple harmonic motion. The restoring force is always directed toward an object's equilibrium position.
Coherent light
Longitudinal waves
Restoring force
Right-hand rule
38. 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
Gravitational Potential Energy
Angular period
Half
Instantaneous velocity
39. 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.
Latent heat of fusion
Kepler's First Law
Acceleration
Translational kinetic energy
40. A scale for measuring temperature - defined such that water freezes at 0ºC and boils at 100ºC. 0ºC = 273 K.
Rutherford nuclear model
Celsius
Angle of reflection
Power
41. 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.
Equilibrium
Angular frequency
Gravitational constant
Pressure
42. The phenomenon of light bouncing off a surface - such as a mirror.
Ground state
Spring
Loudness
Reflection
43. 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.
Normal force
Maxima
Angular position
Nuclear fusion
44. The line perpendicular to a surface. There is only one normal for any given surface.
Centripetal acceleration
Normal
Hooke's Law
Magnitude
45. The ray of light that is refracted through a surface into a different medium.
Latent heat of sublimation
Refracted ray
Electromagnetic spectrum
Right-hand rule
46. The study of the properties of visible light - i.e. - the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with wavelengths between 360 and 780 nm (1 nm = m/s).
Induced current
Basis vector
Optics
Photon
47. The force that binds protons and neutrons together in the atomic nucleus.
Coefficient of volume expansion
Strong nuclear force
Latent heat of vaporization
Node
48. 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
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Radian
Radius of curvature
Potential energy
49. 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.
Pitch
Wave
Atom
Snell's Law
50. A collision in which momentum is conserved but kinetic energy is not.
Inelastic collision
Magnitude
Power
Kepler's Third Law