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Radian

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one radian is the angle suspended at the center of the circle, by a narc of length equal to the radius of the circle

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Angular displacement

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The angle, through which an object moves through a circle

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Angular velocity

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The rate of change of the angular position of an object as it moves along a curved path

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period

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The time taken by the body to complete the circular path once

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Centripetal force

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resultant force acting on an object moving in circle always directed towards the center of the circle perpendicular to the velocity of the object

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centripetal acceleration

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a= rω^2 or a=v^2/r

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Gravitational field strength

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gravitational force per unit mass 

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gravitational potential at a point

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Work done per unit of mass in bringing in miles from infinity to the point

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gravitational potential energy

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Mass M at the point in the gravitational field of another mass M is the work done in bringing that mass M from infinity to that point

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Avogadro constant

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Number of Hatem present in 12 g of carbon 12

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Mole

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Amount of substance containing same number of particle as in 12 g of carbon 12

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ideal gas

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A gas, which a basic ideal gas equation for all values of PV T

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Boyles law

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Pressure inversely proportional to the volume

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Charles law

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Volume proportional to temperature

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mean, square velocity

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Mean value of square of the velocities of the molecules

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thermal equilibrium

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A condition where two or more object in constant, have the same temperature, so there is a no net flow of energy between them 

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Thermodynamic kelvin scale

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theoretical scale that is independent of properties of any particular substance 

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absolute zero

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Temperature at which a system has minimum internal energy

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triple point of pure water

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Temperature at which water exist as vapor liquid and solid

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specific heat capacity

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Energy required per unit mass of a substance to raise the temperature by 1 K

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specific latent heat of sim

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Energy required per unit of mass of a substance to change from solid to liquid face without any change in temperature

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specific latent heat of the vaporization

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Energy required per unit mass of a substance to change from liquid to gas without any change in temperature 

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Internal energy

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sum of random distribution of kinetic and potential energy of molecules in a system 

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first law of thermodynamics

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The increase in internal energy of a system is equal to the sum of heat supplied to the system in the work done on the system

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displacement

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Instanter nails distance of the moving object from its mean position

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amplitude

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Maximum displacement from the mean position

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frequency

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Number of oscillation per unit time

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angular frequency

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Rate of change of angular displacement

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Phase difference

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Measure of how much one wave is out of step with another wave

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simple, harmonic motion

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Acceleration, proportional to displacement and directed towards a fixed point

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dumping

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Loss of energy and reduction in amplitude from an oscillating system, caused by force acting in opposite direction to the motion

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Light dumping

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System oscillates about equilibrium position with decreasing amplitude over a period of time

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critical dumping

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Season does not oscillate and is amount of dumping a corsage that the system returns to its equilibrium position in the shortest possible

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heavy dumping

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Damn thing is so great that the displaced object never oscillate battery turns to equilibrium position very very slowly

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natural frequency F0

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The unforced frequency of oscillation of a freely oscillating object

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Free oscillation

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Oscillatory motion, not object it to an external periodic driving force

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Forced oscillation

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The maximum amplitude of vibration, when impressed frequency equals natural frequency of vibration

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Electric field of a charge

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The space around the charge in which an electric force due to that charge is experienced

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Coulombs law

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any two point charges exerts an electrical force on each other that is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the separation

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Electric field strength

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Force per unit positive charge

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Electric potential at the point

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The work done in bringing you need positive charge from infinity to that point

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potential difference

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defined as work done in taking you need positive charge from B to A

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Equipotential surface

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A surface where the electric potential is constant

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capacitance

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The ratio of charge start by a capacitor to potential difference across it

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Farrad

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Unit of capacitance 1 km/V

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magnetic field

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A region of space in which a magnet a wire, carrying conductor, moving charge experiences of force

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magnetic flux

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Number of magnetic field line passing normally to a given area

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magnetic flux density

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Force acting per unit, current on unit length of conduct her place at right angles to that magnetic field

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Tesla

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is the magnetic field produced in the force of one N per meter on a caring current of 1A normal to the field

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Magnetic flux

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Product of magnetic flux density, an area, normal to feel through which the field is passing

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weber

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The flags at Petronela Avenue 1 m² when the magnetic flux density is one Tesla

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magnetic flux linkage

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Product of magnetic flux in number of turns

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faradays law

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The magnitude of induced emf is proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux linkage

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lenzs law

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The direction of the Houston him if he says that attends supposed to flax linkage, causing it

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pick value

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Highest point on the graph

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instantaneous current/voltage

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The current/voltage at the particular instant

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root mean square, the value

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The value of steady current/voltage that produce same power in a resistor as the alternating current/voltage

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particle model

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Objects that are heart has mass and move about according to a lot of men, Newtonian mechanics

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wave model

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Shaped like a sine graph, do not have my surcharge. Their defining characteristics are diffraction and interference.

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photoelectric effect

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When an electromagnetic radiation of sufficiently high frequency falls on a metal surface electrons are emitted

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Threshold, frequency

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minimum frequency required to release electrons from the surface of a mantle 

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work function

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Minimum amount of energy required by electron to scape its surface

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 Emission line spectra

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The composition of light emitted by hot gas

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Absorption line spectra

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When white light is passed through a Cool gas

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mass defect

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The difference between the total mass of the individual separated, nucleons in the mass of the nucleus

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binding energy

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The minimum external energy required to separate all the neutrons and protons of a new clothes and energy released when the new clothes is assembled from its constituent nucleons

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Fission

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Process in which a massive nuclear splits to form to smaller fragments

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Fusion

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Process by which two very light nuclear join together to form a heavier a nucleus

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Random

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Impossible to predict, and each new clue has same probability of decaying per unit time

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spontaneous

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Not affected by external factors, such as the presence of another nuclei, temperature and pressure

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activity of a radioactive sample

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is the rate at which nuclear decay

72
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decay constant

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Probability that an individual nucleus will decay per unit time interval

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Half life

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Is the mean time taken for half of the active no clay in a sample to decay

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Luminosity

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Total radiant, energy emitted per unit

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Standard candle

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An astronomical object of known luminosity

76
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light years

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Distance traveled by light in a vacuum in a year

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radiant flex density

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Radiant power passing normally through a surface per unit area

78
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Black body

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And idealized object that absorbs all incident, electromagnetic radiation

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Wien’s displacement law

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The higher, the temperature of the body, the shorter the wavelength, and the greater the intensity of the electromagnetic radiation at each wavelength

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Big bang theory

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Around 13.7 billion years ago everything in the entire universe was considered as an infinitesimally small singularity, a point of infinite denseness and heat

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Red shift

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The observed wave lengths of all the spectral lines from distant galaxies are longer than the ones observed in lab

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Doppler red shift

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Formula for those galaxies, moving speed lower than light

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Hubbles law

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The recession speed v of a galaxy is directly proportional to its distance d

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