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Pascals principle

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pressure applied to an incompressible fluid will be distributed throughout entire volume of fluid

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Archimedes principle

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any body submerged in a fluid at rest is acted upon by a buoyant force which is equal to the weight of the liquid

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Heat of transformation/ latent heat

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heat released or absorbed for a phase change (temperature-constant)

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Sublimation

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solid to gas

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Deposition

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gas to solid

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Vaporization

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liquid to gas

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Condensation

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gas to liquid

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Fusion/ Melting

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solid to liquid

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Freezing

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liquid to solid

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Poiseulle’s law

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rate of laminar flow

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Continuity equation

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conservation of mass with fluid dynamics (Q=vA=vA)

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Bernouilli’s equation

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conservation of energy for a flowing fluid

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Absolute pressure

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sum of all pressures at a certain point within a fluid (pressure of the fluid + ambient pressure)

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Gauge pressure

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difference between absolute pressure and atmospheric pressure

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Venturi effect

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inverse relationship between pressure and speed, proportional relationship between cross sectional area and pressure

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Equipotential lines

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the set points around a charge that have the same electric potential

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Diamagnetic materials

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no unpaired electrons, slightly repelled by magnetic

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Paramagnetic materials

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some unpaired electrons, become weakly magnetic in an external magnetic field

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Ferromagnetic materials

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some unpaired electrons, become strongly magnetic in an external magnetic field

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Lorentz force

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sum of magnetic and electrostatic forces acting on a body

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Kirchoff’s junction rule

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sum of currents directed into a point equals the sum of the currents directed away from the point

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Kirchoff’s loop rule

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in a closed loop, the sum of voltage sources is always equal to the sum of voltage drops

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Resistance

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opposition to the movement of electrons through a material

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Ohm’s law

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V=IR

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Series
resistors are additive, voltage is additive, capacitors cause a decrease in capacitance
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Parallel
resistors cause a decrease in resistance, voltage is equivalent, capacitors are additive
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Capacitors
ability to store and discharge electrical potential energy
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Dielectric materials
insulators placed between plates of a capacitor that increase capacitance by a factor equal to the dielectric constant
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Ammeters
inserted in series, measure current, negligible resistance
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Voltmeters
inserted in parallel, measure voltage drop, large resistances
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Ohmmeters
inserted around a resistive element, measure resistance, self-powered, negligible resistance
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Transverse waves
oscillate perpendicular to wave propagation (ex. electromagnetic waves)
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Longitudinal waves
oscillate parallel to wave propagation (ex. sound waves)
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Angular frequency
way to express frequency in radians
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Traveling waves
continuously shifting points of max and min displacement
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Standing waves
produced by the constructive and destructive interference of two waves of the same frequency travelling in opposite directions
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Resonance (waves and sound)
increase in amplitude that occurs when a force is applied at the natural frequency (timing the pushes to be the same as natural frequency)
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Damping
decrease in amplitude by an applied or nonconservative force
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Pitch
related to frequency
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Doppler effect
shift in perceived frequency compared to actual frequency, when the source and detector are moving relative to one another (moving toward- higher perceived, moving away-lower perceived), top for moving forward, bottom for moving away
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Sonic boom
when the source is moving above speed of sound
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Sound level
related to intensity and amplitude
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Attenuation
the reduction of the amplitude of a signal
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Open pipes
support standing waves, 2L/n
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Strings
support standing waves, 2L/n
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Closed pipes
support standing waves, 4L/n
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Beat frequency
f1-f2
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Change in sound level
Bf=Bi+10log(If/Ii)
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Sound level
B=10log(I/Io)
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Concave mirrors
converging
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Convex mirrors
diverging, only produce virtual, upright, reduced
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Plane mirrors
only produce virtual, upright, same size
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Snell's law
nsin=nsin
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Total internal reflection
when moving from high index of refraction to lower index of refraction
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Critical angle
the minimum incident angle at which total internal reflection occurs
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Convex lenses
converging
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Concave lenses
diverging, only produce virtual, upright, reduced
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Diffraction
bending and spreading out of light waves as they pass through a narrow slit, large central light fringe
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Minima
dark fringes
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Maxima
bright fringes
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Work function
minimum energy to eject an electron from a given metal
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Nuclear binding energy
the amount of energy released when nucleons bind together
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4 fundamental forces of nature
strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electrostatic force, gravity
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Mass defect
the difference between mass of unbonded nucleons to mass of bonded nucleons within a nucleus
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Alpha decay
helium nucleus released
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B- decay
proton becomes neutron, electron and antineutrino released
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B+ decay
neutron becomes proton, positron and neutrino released
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Gamma decay
emission of gamma ray
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Electron capture
electron is captured and combines with proton to form neutron
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Observational studies
cohort, cross-sectional, case-control
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Cohort studies
studies incidence, causes and prognosis
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Cross-sectional studies
determine prevalence
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Case-control studies
compare groups retrospectively
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Error
bias, confounding, random error
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Selection bias
sample differs from population
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Detection bias
professionals search for an outcome disproportionately
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Hawthorne effect
changes in behaviour that occur as a results of knowledge that the subject is being observed
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Confounding
error in data analysis where both the dependent and independent variable have a common connection to a third variable
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4 principle of medical ethics
beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, justice
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Parameters
population data
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Statistics
sample data
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Internal validity
the degree of confidence that the causal relationship being tested is trustworthy
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External validity
the extent to which results from a study can be applied
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Mean
equally weighs all values, most affected by outliers
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Median
50% of data points are above and below the median
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Mode
data point that appears most often, there may be multiple data points
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Normal distribution
symmetrical, mean, median and mode are all the same
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Standard deviation
68% data points occur within 1 SD, 95% within 2 SD 99% within 3 SD
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Skewed distributions
differences in mean, median and mode, the direction of the tail
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Bimodal distributions
multiple peaks
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Interquartile range
used to determine outliers, 3 IQR - 1 IQR

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