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Physics
Undergraduate 2
12/07/2011

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Equal distances from the mirror
Definition
Object and image for a plane mirror lie
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A vacuum
Definition
Light travels fastest in
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A real image
Definition
can be projected onto a viewing screen
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Interference
Definition
colors seen when gasoline forms a thin film on water
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Perpendicular
Definition
Light will not pass through a pair of Polaroids when their axes are
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Lower-Frequency Light
Definition
In the process of fluorescence, the input is high-frequency light and the output is
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Of electrical forces
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Solid matters is mostly empty space. The reason why solids don't fall through one another is because
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Quantum

Photon

Definition
A lump on energy associated with light is
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Several photons in a series of transitions to the ground state
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According to Niels Bohr, an electron in a excited state could give off
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Electrostatically repelled
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Once an alpha particle is outside the nucleus it is
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New Bones
Definition

There is a greater proportion of carbon 14 in
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Greater than one
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A chain reaction grows when the average number of liberated neutrons which go on to cause further fissions is
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becomes a beta emitter
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when uranium-238 absorbs a neutron, it
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iron
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the nueclus with the most tightly bound nucleons is
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combine
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energy released by the sun results from the process wherein atomic nuclei
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is the return of the light rays from a surface
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reflection
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is one which is thinner in the middle than at the edges and that refracts parallel rays as if from a point.
Definition
diverging lens
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image which is form by light rays that converge at the location of the image and can be displayed on screen
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real
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states that every point on a wave front acts as if it were the source of a new wave
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huygen's principle
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is a type of light emission similiar to fluorescence except for a delay between excitation and de-excitation which provides an afterglow
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phosphorescence
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