Cracking the SAT Physics Subject Test

Summary

For the test, be sure you are familiar with the followingconcepts from this chapter.

Rutherford model of the atom

Photons and the photoelectric effect

The Bohr model of the atom

Wave–particle duality

Nuclear physics

The nuclear force

Binding energy

Radioactivity

Alpha decay

Beta decay

β− decay

β+ decay

Electron capture

Radioactive decay rates

Nuclear reactions

Disintegration energy

Special relativity

The relativity of velocity

The relativity of time