Heat and thermo
Waves
Electricity
Light
Modern Physics
100
a measurable amount of disorder in a system
What is entropy?
100
Characteristic of waves to change velocity when changing mediums.
What is refraction?
100
current moves back and forth in a circuit.
What is alternating current?
100
used diffraction and interference to demonstrate the wave nature of light
Who is Thomas Young
100
Meeow!!
What is Schrodinger's Cat
200
a device that uses expanding gases to do work
What is a heat engine
200
the apparent change in frequency of a wave as the source or observer moves relative to the other.
What is the Doppler effect?
200
a circuit where the total resistance is less than the smallest resistor.
What is a parallel circuit?
200
the calculation to determine the change in direction of light moving into a different medium
What is Snell's Law?
200
the difference in mass between a large unstable nucleus and its more stable daughters
What is mass defect?
300
a device that does work ON a gas to cool a room, or food
What is a heat mover?
300
When two waves occupy the same space at the same time.
What is interference?
300
a measure of electrical energy that you are billed for.
What is a kilowatt hour?
300
Measured the speed of light with a rotating mirror
Who is Albert Michelson?
300
p = E/c
What is the equation to determine the momentum of a photon?
400
energy is always lost as waste in any interaction
What is the second law of thermodynamics
400
When one object is caused to vibrate at the same frequency as another object.
What is resonance?
400
a device that measures the potential difference in a circuit
What is a voltmeter?
400
a filter that blocks all light except that which vibrates in a particular plane
What is polarization?
400
E = nhf
What is the equation to find the total energy of n number of photons?
500
A measure of the ratio of useful work compared to the amount of energy required to do that work.
What is efficiency?
500
the time it takes for one wave to pass a point
What is the period of a wave
500
the equation to determine the amount of work needed to move a charge through a potenial difference
What is W = qV
500
400 - 700 nm
What is range of wavelength of visible light?
500
6.626 X 10^-34 J S
What is Planck's Constant?
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