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Physics Review 12

Total questions: 63

Worksheet time: 1hrs 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the production of light by a heated body?

(a)  

2.

What is defined as the minimum energy sufficient to free an electron?

(a)  

3.

Who proposed the science of wave mechanics?

(a)  

4.

List the primary colors of light in order from lowest frequency to highest frequency (commas in between, no "and")

(a)  

5.

What is the time rate of change in angular displacement?

(a)  

6.

What is the ratio of input distance to output distance in a simple machine?

(a)  

7.

Which quantum number indicates the shape of an orbital?

(a)  

8.

What is the deformative force per unit cross-sectional area?

(a)  

9.

How many electron shells exist currently (use a number)

(a)  

10.

What principle is demonstrated by a hydraulic device?

(a)  

11.

What particle of an atom's nucleus determines atomic number?

(a)  

12.

List one of the units for measuring magnetic induction.

(a)  

13.

What is the production of a charge by the influence of a charged body at a distance?

(a)  

14.

What law determines the sum of all the changes in potential difference around a circuit?

(a)  

15.

What is any material that readily transmits a current?

(a)  

16.

What scientist developed quantum theory?

(a)  

17.

What scientist formulated the exclusion principle?

(a)  

18.

Who formulated the concept of the photon?

(a)  

19.

Who developed the quantum model of the hydrogen atom?

(a)  

20.

Who developed the concept of matter waves?

(a)  

21.

What object is both an ideal absorber and ideal radiator?

(a)  

22.

T/F: Lines of emission are identical to lines of absorption on a gas spectrum

(a)  

23.

A quantum represents what kind of number?

(a)  

24.

how is light treated when viewing the exchange of energy between light and matter?

(a)  

25.

What is the frequency above which electrons are emitted from a photoemissive surface?

(a)  

26.

Which orbital has two lobes?

(a)  

27.

T/F: the shape of a container holding a liquid affects the amount of pressure at the bottom.

(a)  

28.

T/F: the speed of light can be exceeded

(a)  

29.

In what kind of circuit s the current the same at every point in the circuit?

(a)  

30.

As an object accelerates with respect to an observer's frame of reference, what happens to the object's mass?

(a)  

31.

What is the lowest theoretically obtainable temperature?

(a)  

32.

What type of proportion exists between energy and mass?

(a)  

33.

What science measures the equilibrium temperature of a mixture?

(a)  

34.

What is the variable for Planck's constant?

(a)  

35.

What is the variable for the Stefan-Boltzmann constant?

(a)  

36.

What is the variable for focal length?

(a)  

37.

What is the variable for resistivity?

(a)  

38.

What is the variable for wavelength?

(a)  

39.

What is the variable for magnetic induction?

(a)  

40.

What is the variable for charge?

(a)  

41.

What is the variable for magnetic flux?

(a)  

42.

What is the variable for capacitance?

(a)  

43.

Whta is the variable for electric potential difference?

(a)  

44.

What effect is caused by the ejection of electrons from a surface exposed to radiation?

(a)  

45.

What effect indicates that x-rays detected at any angle of scattering are most intense at two wavelengths?

(a)  

46.

What spectrum of electromagnetic radiation does a blackbody radiate at below 5000K?

(a)  

47.

What law states that the current induced by a change in flux linkage is directed so as to create a magnetic field that opposes the change?

(a)  

48.

At what potential does the photoelectric effect case to cause a significant rise in current?

(a)  

49.

What are the only available charge carriers in a solid?

(a)  

50.

What did Michelson use to measure the speed of light?

(a)  

51.

What color of light is most readily scattered?

(a)  

52.

In the 19th century, what was the mythical substance that was widely believed to permeate the universe?

(a)  

53.

What is the transfer of energy caused by a force operating over a distance?

(a)  

54.

What happens to time on an observer's frame of reference as an object moves?

(a)  

55.

What law states that the amount of heat lost is equal to the amount of heat gained?

(a)  

56.

What is the speed of light in meters per second?

(a)  

57.

What is the formula (force x radius) used to find?

(a)  

58.

What is the study of matter and energy?

(a)  

59.

What is the attraction between like molecules?

(a)  

60.

What is the pathway of any projectile?

(a)  

61.

What is the value of g in m/s^2? (include the unit)

(a)  

62.

Long answer helps: Uncertainty principle, exclusion principle, special relativity, relativism.

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63.

Math formulas: R=sigmaT^4, R=E/At, E=mc^2, E=hf, E=hc/lamda, lamda=h/p, 1/f=1/do+1/di, fo=fs(v+vo/v-vs) I1r1=I2r2

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