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Specific latent heat of vapourisation

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The quantity of heat absorbed during boiling or released during condensation of 1kg of a substance without any change in temperature

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Specific latent heat

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The quantity of heat absorbed or released during the change in phase of 1kg mass of a substance without any changes in its temperature

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Specific latent heat of fusion

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The quantity of heat absorbed during melting or released during freezing of 1kg of a substance without any change in temperature

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Physical quantity

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A quantity that can be measured

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Base quantity

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A physical quantity which cannot be derived from other physical quantities

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Derived quantity

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A quantity which can be obtained by combination of base quantities by mean of multiplication, division or both

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Scalar quantity

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Physical quantity that have magnitude only

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Vector quantity

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Physical quantity that have both magnitude and direction

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Linear motion

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Motion in a straight line

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Speed

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The rate of change of distance

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Velocity

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The rate of change of displacement

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Acceleration

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The rate of change of velocity

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Free fall motion

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Motion of an object which is affected by gravitational force only

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Inertia

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The tendency of an object to remain at rest or continue its uniform motion in a straight line at uniform velocity

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Newton’s First Law of Motion

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An object will remain at rest or move at uniform velocity unless acted upon by an external force

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Momentum

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The product of mass and velocity

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Principle of Conservation of Momentum

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The total amount of momentum before a collision is equal to the total amount of momentum after a collision provided there is no external force acting on the system

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Force

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A push or pull

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Newton’s Second Law of Motion

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The rate of change of momentum is directly proportional to the force and acts in the direction of the applied force

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Impulse

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The change in momentum

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Impulsive force

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The rate of change in momentum

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Newton’s Third Law of Motion

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For every action, there is a reaction with equal amplitude but opposite direction

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Weight

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The gravitational force acting on an object

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Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation

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The gravitational force between two bodies is directly proportional to the product of masses of both bodies but inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the centre of the two bodies

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Centripetal force

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The force acting on an object in circular motion which acts in the direction towards the centre of the circle

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Kepler’s First Law

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All planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus (Law of Orbits)

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Kepler’s Second Law

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A line that connects a planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal time (Law of Areas)

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Kepler’s Third Law

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The square of the orbital period of any planet is directly proportional to the cube of the radius of its orbit (Law of Periods)

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Orbital radius

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Average value of the distance between the planet and the Sun

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Escape velocity

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The minimum velocity needed by an object on the surface of the Earth in order to overcome the gravitational force and escape to outer space

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Temperature

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A measure of the degree of hotness or coldness of an object

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Heat

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The total amount of thermal energy that can be transferred from one object to another

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Thermal equilibrium

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The condition where the net heat transfer between two objects becomes zero

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Heat capacity

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The quantity of heat needed to raise the temperature of a substance by 1⁰C

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Specific heat capacity

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The quantity of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg mass of a substance by 1⁰C

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Boyle’s Law

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Pressure is inversely proportional to volume of a fixed mass of gas at constant temperature

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Charles’ Law

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Volume is directly proportional to absolute temperature of a fixed mass of gas at constant pressure

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Gay-Lussac’s Law

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Pressure is directly proportional to absolute temperature of a fixed mass of gas at constant volume

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Oscilation, vibration

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Repetitive motion about an equilibrium position in a closed path

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Amplitude

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Maximum displacement from its equilibrium position

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Transverse wave

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A wave which the vibration of particle in the medium is perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the wave

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Longitudinal wave

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A wave which the vibration of particle in the medium is parallel to the direction of propagation of the wave

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Coherent sources

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Source that produce waves which have the same frequency and constant phase difference

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Period

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The time taken by a particle to make one complete oscillation or by one source to produce one cycle of wave

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Frequency

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Number of oscillations made by a particle or number of cycles of waves produced by one source in one second

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Wavelength

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Distance between two consecutive points in phase

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Wave speed

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Distance travelled by a wave profile per second

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The principle of superposition of waves

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When two waves overlap, the resultant displacement is the sum of the two individual displacements of the two waves

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External damping

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Oscillating system loses energy to overcome air resistance or friction

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Internal damping

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Oscillating system loses energy because of the stretching and compression of the vibrating particles in the system

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Damping

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Reduction in amplitude in an oscillating system due to loss of energy

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Resonance

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When a periodic force is applied to an oscillating system at its natural frequency

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Describe resonance in 4 sentences (pendulum)

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  • Pendulum X transfer energy to all pendulums
  • Pendulum A has the same length as pendulum X
  • Pendulum X forces pendulum A to oscillate in resonance with pendulum X
  • pendulum A oscillates with max amplitude
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Wavefront

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Lines joining all points of the same phase

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Refraction of waves

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The change in direction of propagation of waves caused by the change of velocity of waves when the waves propagate from one medium to another

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Diffraction of waves

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The spreading of waves when the waves propagate through a slit or side of a barrier

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Interference of waves

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The superposition of two of more waves from a coherent source of waves

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Constructive interference

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occurs when two crests or troughs are in superposition to produce maximum amplitude

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Destructive interference

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Occurs when a crest and a trough are in superposition to produce zero combined ampltiude

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Electromagnetic spectrum

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7 types of electromagnetic waves that forms a continuous spectrum

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Electromagnetic wave

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Wave that is made up of an electric field and a magnetic field that oscillate perpendicularly to one another (E = horizontal, M = vertical)

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Distance

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Length of route covered by an object

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Displacement

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Shortest distance between the initial position and the final position in a specific direction

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Refraction of light

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A phenomenon when light changes direction when it travels from one medium to another medium of different densities

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Refractive index

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The ratio of speed of light in vacuum to the speed of light in medium

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One law of refraction of light

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When light travels from one medium to another medium, the incident ray, refracted ray and normal meet at one point and are in the same plane

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Total internal reflection

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The complete reflection of light ray at the boundary of two mediums with different optical densities when the angle of incidence in the higher optical density medium is greater than the criticla angle

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Critical angle

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Angle of i in higher optical density medium when the angle or r in lower optical density medium is equal to 90 degrees

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Optical centre

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Point at the centre of the lens

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Principle axis (lens)

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Straight line which passes through the optical centre of a lens and the centre of curvature for both surfaces of the lens

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Axis of lens

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Straight line through the optical centre and perpendicular to the principle axis

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Focal point (lens)

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Point located on the principle axis where :
- for convex lens, light parallel to the principal axis will converge at this point after passing through the lens
- for concave lens, light parallel to the principal axis will appear to diverge from this point after passing through the lens

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Object distance (lens)

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Distance between an object and optical centre of the lens

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Image distance (lens)

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Distance between an image and the optical centre of the lens

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Focal length (lens)

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Distance between the focal point and the optical centre

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Principal axis (mirror)

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Straight line through the centre of curvature and pole of spherical mirror

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Centre of curvature

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Centre of a sphere which produces a concave or convex mirror

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Radius of curvature of mirror

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Distance between the pole of spherical mirror and the centre of curvature

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Focal point (mirror)

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A point on the principal axis of the spherical mirror where :
- for convex mirror, light parallel to the principal axis will appear to diverge from this point
- for concave mirror, light parallel to the principal axis will converge at this point

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Object distance (mirror)

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Distance between object and pole of spherical mirror

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Image distance (mirror)

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Distance between image and the pole of spherical mirror

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Focal length

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Distance between focal point and the pole of spherical mirror

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