Introduction to SAT II Physics

You won’t need to calculate the natural logarithm of 2—remember, no calculators are allowed on the test. What you will need to k ...

more light elements—often hydrogen—together to form a heavier element. As with fission, this fusion releases a tremendous amount ...

Photoelectro n Radius of Electron Orbit Electron Potential Energy in a Hydrogen Atom De Broglie Wavelength De Broglie Wavelength ...

1.. A train at rest has a length of 100 m. At what speed must it approach a tunnel of length 80 m so that an observer at rest wi ...

5.. An electron is accelerated through a particle accelerator and then ejected through a diffraction grating. By means of the di ...

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 9.. Which graph plots the activity of a radioactive substance as a function of time? 10.. Which graph shows ...

according to the formula , where l is the relativistic length of the train, is the rest length of the train, and v is the speed ...

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle tells us that we can never know both the momentum and the position of a particle at the same ...

In radioactive substances, the number of nuclei that decay per second. Activity, A, will be larger in large samples of radioacti ...

right hand and curl your fingers along the particle or body’s direction of rotation. Your thumb then points in the direction of ...

A scale for measuring temperature, defined such that water freezes at 0ºC and boils at 100ºC. 0ºC = 273 K. Center of curvature W ...

but not in inelastic collisions. In a perfectly inelastic collision, the colliding objects stick together after they collide. Co ...

The points of maximum displacement along a wave. In traveling waves, the crests move in the direction of propagation of the wave ...

coordinate space, direction is usually given by the angle measured counterclockwise from the x- axis to the vector. Directly pro ...

Electromagnetic spectrum The spectrum containing all the different kinds of electromagnetic waves, ranging in wavelength and fre ...

Illustrates the forces acting on an object, drawn as vectors originating from the center of the object. Frequency The number of ...

The amount of time it takes for one-half of a radioactive sample to decay. Harmonic series The series of standing waves supporte ...

The index of refraction n = c/v of a substance characterizes the speed of light in that substance, v. It also characterizes, by ...

Given the period, T, and semimajor axis, a, of a planet’s orbit, the ratio is the same for every planet. Kinematic equations The ...

The two shorter sides of a right triangle that meet at the right angle. Lenz’s Law States that the current induced in a circuit ...