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An instrument used to take very rapid series of photographs at rates up to 2000 fps

stoboscope

A __ is a set of parallel slits used to disperse light using Fraunhoffer diffraction

diffraction grating

The arrangement of two points such that a cone of rays passing through one also passes through
the other, producing an image of the first point

stigmatic

While driving on a level straightway, you hit the brakes. The acceleration vector __

points opposite to the direction the car is traveling

The farthest distance a body in an elliptic orbit about a mass makes

apoapsis

According to the law of conservation of momentum, in an ideal closed system __

when two objects collide, the system neither loses nor gains any total momentum

Which of the following does not have an effect on the momentum of a moving spherical particle

the diameter of the particle

A device invented by E.O. Lawrence and M.S. Livingston that is used to accelerate charged
particles by means of magnetic field

Cyclotron

Nuclear physicists commonly use particle accelerators to

fabricate elements that don't occur naturally

Greenhouse effect in the Earth's environment takes place because

the atmosphere is transparent to IR at some wavelengths and opaque to IR at other wavelenghts

According to the law of reflection, __

none of the above

A diverging lens

can collimate converging rays of light

If a spaceship is slowing down, that is, losing speed in the forward direction, the perceived force
inside the ship is directed __

toward the front

Some light beams will follow curved paths __

when measured in the presence of an extreme gravitational field

A quantum mechanical effect, where two very large plates placed close to each other will
experience an attractive force, in the absence of the other forces

Casimir effect

Which of the following statement is false

a convex mirror can be used as the main objective in a reflecting telescope

High levels of UV radiation, either short term or long term, are known or believed to cause all of
the following except

ozone depletion

A point at which the weight may be considered as acting

center of gravity

A pair of forces equal in magnitude, oppose in direction, and not in the same line

couple

When a body is in equlibrium, the vector sum of all the forces acting on it is zero

the first condition for equilibrium

The work done by a force of 1 dyne exerted through a distance of 1cm

erg
Which of the following is not an effect of friction

reduces power needed

The numerical measure of inertia

mass

The outward force exerted by the moving object on the agent

centrifugal reaction

Defined as 1/pi candle per square centimeter

lambert

An instrument which measures a constant fraction of the radiant flux and which is calibrated in
units of luminance

foot candle meter

This states that light progresses as a wave, that every point on a wave front acts as a secondardy
source sending ahead wavelets, and that at any instant the new wave front is the surface tangent to
all these wavelets

Huygens principle

The point to which the rays parallel to the principal axis are brought to a focus

principal focus
The ratio of the angle subtended at the eye by the image to the angle subtended by the object

angular magnification

A double prism that produces deviation without dispersion

achromatic prism

Who developed a wave equation, the solution of which described the wave amplitude of the matter
waves as well as the allowed energy values the particle can have

Erwin Schrodinger

The shift in wavelength upon scattering of light from stationary electrons

Compton effect

Occurs in layers of fluid which are bounded by two planes almost perpendicular to an axis of
rotation, but not quite parallel to each other

Rossby Wave

These are highly penetrating electromagnetic radiation, not deflected by magnetic or electric