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What is the Principle of a Potential Divider?

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When two resistors are used in series, the input voltage is applied across both resistors and the output voltage is taken across one of them.

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What is Superposition?

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When at least two waves meet at a point, the resultant displacement is the algebraic sum of the displacement of each wave.

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What does Kirchoff’s second law state?

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The sum of the e.m.f.s is equal to the sum of the p.d.s in a closed loop.

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What does Kirchoff’s first law state?

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The sum of the currents entering any junction is always equal to the sum of the currents leaving the junction.

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What is the Conservation of Charge?

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The law that states that charges are neither created nor destroyed but only transferred from one material to another.

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What is Ohm’s Law?

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The current in a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference across its ends provided that temperature remains constant.

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What is the principle of superposition?

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The idea that we can get the resultant wave from adding two waves at a point.

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What is Malus’s Law?

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The intensity of light is proportional to the (amplitude)^2. Transmitted intensity I=E^2.

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What does Hooke’s Law state?

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Extension is directly proportional to force until the spring reaches its elastic limit.

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What is Archimede’s Principal?

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The weight of the liquid displaced is equal to the volume of the object.

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What does Newton’s Second Law (in terms of momentum) state?

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The resultant force acting on an object is directly proportional to the rate of change of the linear momentum of that object.

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What does Newton’s First Law (in terms of momentum) state?

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The momentum of an object remains the same unless the object experiences an external force.

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What is Newton’s Third Law of Motion?

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When two bodies interact, the forces they exert on each other are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.

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What does Newton’s Second Law state?

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For a body of constant mass, its acceleration is directly proportional to the resultant force applied to it.

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What does Newton’s First Law state?

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An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

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What is the principle of conservation of energy?

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The total energy of an isolated system remains constant.

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What is the Principle of conservation of momentum?

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Total momentum of a system remains the same before and after a collision.

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What is the Doppler effect?

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An observed change in the frequency of a wave when the source or observer is moving.

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What is displacement?

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The total distance traveled in relation to a point in a particular direction.

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What is distance?

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The amount of space traveled by an object.

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What is speed?

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The rate at which an object moves.

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What is velocity?

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The speed of an object in a particular direction, the rate of change of displacement.

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What is a scalar?

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A physical quantity that has magnitude only.

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What is a vector?

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A quantity that has magnitude and direction.

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What is acceleration?
The rate of change of velocity of an object.
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What is uniform acceleration?
When the velocity of a body increases by equal amounts in equal intervals of time.
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What is mass?
The property of an object that resists change in motion.
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What is linear momentum?
The product of mass and velocity.
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What is force?
Rate of change of momentum.
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What is weight?
The effect of a gravitational field on a mass.
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What is load?
The force exerted on an object.
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What is path difference?
The extra distance travelled by one wave compared with another in terms of wavelength.
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What is a node?
A point on a stationary wave where the amplitude is zero.
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What is an anti-node?
A point on a stationary wave where the amplitude is a maximum.
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What is an isotope?
Forms of the same element with different number of neutrons in its nuclei.
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What is a quark?
A fundamental particle with six flavors.
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What is an anti-particle?
A particle of the same mass and magnitude of charge but opposite charge.
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What is a hadron?
A particle made of quarks.
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What is a baryon?
A hadron made of 3 quarks.
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What is a meson?
A hadron made of a quark and an anti-quark.
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What is a lepton?
A fundamental particle not affected by the strong nuclear force.
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What is dispersion?
The splitting of light into its component wavelengths.
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What is interference?
The cancellation and reinforcement of two waves when they pass through the same point.
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What is coherence?
When two waves have a constant phase relationship.
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What is diffraction?
The spreading of a wave at an edge or slit.
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What is a stationary wave?
A wave pattern produced when two progressive waves of the same speed and frequency travel in opposite directions.
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What is polarization?
The process of restricting the oscillations of a transverse wave to be in one phase.
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What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
The family of waves that travel through a vacuum at the speed of light.
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What is intensity?
The power transmitted normally per unit cross-sectional area.
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What is amplitude?
The maximum displacement from the equilibrium position of a wave.
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What is wavelength?
The distance between two adjacent nodes or anti-nodes.
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What is frequency?
The number of complete oscillations that pass through a point in a unit time.
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What is period?
The time taken to complete one oscillation.
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What is phase difference?
A measure of the amount by which one oscillation of a wave leads/lags another expressed as an angle.
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What is resistivity?
A measure of the electrical resistance.
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What does quantised mean?
When a quantity has a definite minimum magnitude and always comes in multiples of that magnitude.
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What is resistance?
Ratio of the potential difference across a component to the current in the component.
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What is a charge carrier?
A particle which contributes to an electrical current.
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What is elementary charge?
The smallest unit of electric charge that is possible in ordinary matter.
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What is electromotive force (emf)?
A source as energy transferred per unit charge in driving charge around a complete circuit.
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What is terminal potential difference?
The potential difference across an external resistor connected across a source emf.
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What is potential difference?
Energy transferred per unit charge as it passes between two points.
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What is a perfectly elastic collision?
The relative speed of approach is equal to the relative speed of separation.
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What is torque?
A rotational force - the product of one of the forces and the perpendicular distance between the forces.
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What is a couple?
A pair of equal and opposite forces that act on an object at different points and produce rotation only.
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What is the principle of moments?
The sum of the clockwise moments is equal to the sum of the anticlockwise moments provided the object is in equilibrium.
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What is equilibrium?
When there is no resultant force and no resultant torque.
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What is the moment of force?
The moment of a force about a point is the product of the force and the perpendicular distance from the line of action of the force to the point.
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What is the center of gravity?
Point where the weight of an object is taken to act.
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What is terminal velocity?
The maximum velocity reached by an object falling under gravity or accelerated by a constant force.
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What is Normal (Contact) Force?
The force at right angles to a surface when two objects are in contact.
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What is electric current?
A flow of charge carriers.
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What is Young's modulus?
A ratio of tensile stress to tensile strain.
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What is strain?
The extension per unit length produced by tensile or compressive forces.
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What is stress?
The force per unit cross-sectional area.
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What is density?
Mass per unit of volume of a material.
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What is pressure?
The force acting normally per unit area of a surface.
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What is power?
Work done per unit time.
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What is efficiency?
The ratio of useful energy output from the system to the total energy input.
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What is work done?
A force times the displacement it acts in the direction of the force.

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