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Physics: Final Exam Flashcards

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What does the Solar System consist of? (hint: 5 main things)

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  • The Sun
  • 8 planets
  • Natural and artificial satellites
  • Dwarf planet
  • Asteroids and comets
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What are the rocky planets? (hint: 4)

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  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Earth
  • Mars
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What are the gas planets? (hint:4)

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  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Neptune
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What planet is the dwarf planet?

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Pluto

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What are some characteristics of the sun?

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  • The Sun lies at the centre of the Solar System

- The Sun is a star that makes up over 99% of the mass of the Solar System

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How strong are gravitational fields?

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  • Around planets is strong enough to have pulled in all nearby objects except for natural satellites
  • Around a dwarf planet is not strong enough to have pulled nearby objects
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What are the two types of satellites?

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  • Natural

- Artificial

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What is an example of a natural satellite?

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  • Some planets have moons orbiting them

- Moons are an example of natural satellites

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What are artificial satellites?

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Artificial satellites are man-made and can orbit any object in space

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What is an asteroid?

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An asteroid is a small rocky object which orbits the sun

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What is a comet?

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Comets are made of dust and ice and orbit the Sun in a different orbit to the planets

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Exam Tip:

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My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming (Planets) =

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, (Pluto)

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What is the definition for Weight?

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The force acting on an object due to gravitational attraction

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What does weight do?

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  • Objects stay firmly on the ground
  • Objects will always fall to the ground
  • Satellites are kept in orbit
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How are objects attracted to the centre of the Earth?

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-Due to its gravitational field strength

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How does mass affect a planet?

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The greater the mass of the planet, the stronger the gravitational field strength is going to be

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How much gravitational field strength (g) does the Earth have?

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Approximately 10 N/kg

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What does gravity provide?

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Provides a force which pulls an object towards a body

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How are the sun’s rays acting in summer and winter?

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  • summer: The sun’s rays are concentrated

- winter: The sun’s rays are spread out

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When is it summer and winter in Europe?

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summer: When the nothern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun
winter: When the northen hemisphere is titled away from the sun

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Why are days longer than nights in summer?

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As the earth is tilted towards the sun, we get more sunlight, making the day longer.

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What is a magnetic field?

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The region around a magnet where a force acts on another magnet or on a magnetic material (iron, steel, cobalt and nickel)

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Is the magnetic field stronger in the pole or south?

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POLE

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What is Friction?

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force when an object is being pulled along the ground

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How can friction be reduced?
Through wheels or rollers
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What is the resultant force?
The difference between the forwards and backwards forces.
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What can unbalanced forces do?
They can change the speed of an object and the direction
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What are the 2 forms of drag?
Water resistance and air resistance
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What does drag do?
Slows down objects moving through fluids.
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What affects the drag?
- The speed (drag force increases and speed increases) | - Surface area
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What is the top speed?
- When the resistance (drag) is as large as the force | - This means the object can't accelerate.
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Where does the energy from humans and animals come from?
Food
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What is kinetic energy?
Anything that is moving.
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What is speed?
How fast or slow something is
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What is the formula for Speed?
Speed= Distance (in a graph = rise/run) --------------- Time
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What is velocity?
It is a vector quantity which decribes both magnitude and direction
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What is the formula for Velocity?
Distance ------------- Time
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What is acceleration?
rate of change of velocity
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What is the formula for acceleration?
change in velocity --------------------------- time taken
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What is the formula for the change in velocity?
final velocity - initial velocity
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What does a distance time graph show?
shows how the distance of an object moving in a straight line (from a starting position) varies over time
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What does a velocity graph show?
shows how the velocity of a moving object varies with time
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What is an electrostatic force?
-the force between two charged objects
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What is thrust?
-the force causing an object to move
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What is upthrust?
-the force of a fluid pushing an object upwards
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What is compression?
-forces that act inward on an object, squeezing it
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What is a reaction force (or normal force)?
-a force due to contact between two objects
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What is a contact force?
A force which acts between objects that are physically touching
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What are examples of contact forces?
- Friction - Air Resistance - Tension - Reaction force/normal force
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What is a non-contact force?
- A force which acts at a distance - No contact between bodies - Due to the action of a field
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What are examples of non-contact forces?
- Gravitational force - Electrostatic force - Magnetic force
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What causes the seasons?
This happens because the Earth's axis is tilted
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What is the formula for weight?
Newtons (N)
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What is the formula for mass?
Kilograms (Kg)
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What is the formula for mass?
Kilograms (Kg)
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What is the formula gravitational field strength?
Newtons/Kilograms (N/Kg)
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How do you calculate the mass on a planet?
Calculate the weight of a 5kg mass on Earth: weight= mass x g =5 x 10 =50
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What is the definition for Force?
a push or pull on an object that produces acceleration in the body on which it acts
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What is the definition for Mass?
How much matter something is made of

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