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(Written on 05-18-05)
2005 Honors Physics Final Exam Review
1. What does the pitch of a musical note depend on?
2. Compare the transmission of sound in various mediums.
3. Differentiate between transverse waves and longitudinal waves relative to the displacement of medium particles.
4. What is the relationship between nodes and anti-nodes for closed pipes and open pipes?
5. What is the amplitude of sound related to?
6. Compare the speed of sound produced by two tuning forks having different frequencies, under the same environmental conditions.
7. Compare the speed of sound at different seasons of the year.
8. Determine the frequency, wavelength, speed, and energy of various sound waves depicted graphically.
9. Compare the pitch of sound heard by an observer produced by a source when one is stationary and the other is in motion; when both are in motion.
10. Differentiate between constructive interference and destructive interference, describing the orientation of troughs and crests.
11. Differentiate between the frequency and period of sound waves.
12. Compare the fundamental tone of closed and open pipes having the same length.
13. State the relationship between the speed of sound in a given medium as frequency changes.
14. Given open and closed pipes with stated lengths and speed of sound, calculate wavelength, fundamental frequency, and frequencies of other natural (audible) harmonics.
15. Describe the relationship between beats per second and difference in frequency.
16. Determine the distance from a source of sound and a distant solid object.
17. Given the frequency of a tuning fork and an open or closed pipe, calculate the required pipe length for a specific resonance tone.
18. Explain the color of transparent and opaque objects.
19. Describe the gradient of colors produced when white light passes through a prism, from least refracted to most refracted.
20. List the descriptions of images produced using lens (and then mirrors), when the object is placed at specified distances from the optical device. Use the following terms: converging, diverging, convex, concave, erect, inverted, real, virtual, regular, reversed, enlarged, reduced, plane, F, 2F.
21. Determine the angle of reflection when given information about the angle of incidence.
22. What does the term "candela" refer to about a radiant body?
23. What is the relationship between the light received by the surface of a body and its distance from the luminous source?
24. What happens to the speed, wavelength, frequency, and angle relative to the normal, of a light ray as it enters a transparent medium from air?
25. Why does the side-view mirror on a car have the statement, "objects are closer than they appear"?
26. Calculate the image location when given object location and focal length using a lens or a mirror.
27. Describe the behavior of a light ray as it passes through converging and diverging lenses, relative to points on the principal axis.
28. Describe the location of the image of an object when viewing the object located in one medium while you are stationed in another medium.
29. Match the actual harmonic associated with an open pipe or a closed pipe when a statement is given, such as, "the second time an audible resonance is heard."
30. Predict the change in direction and velocity of a light ray as it passes into a medium of one index of refraction, compared to its behavior when it passes into a medium of a different index of refraction
31. Predict the direction of a ray when the incident ray exceeds the critical angle.
32. Define the terms reflection, refraction, absorption, transmission related to the behavior of a ray of light.
33. Explain the relationship between the intersection of rays of light when real and virtual images are produced.
34. Explain the cause of spherical aberration.
35. Predict the correct placement of an object to produce a virtual image in converging and diverging lenses and mirrors.
36. Predict the position of an image when an object is placed a given distance from a plane mirror.
37. Relate the position of an image as the object moves closer to a concave mirror.
38. Differentiate between work performed and power.
39. Know the unit associated with force, work, and power.
40. Given the weight of a load and the expected exertion of a person, calculate the minimum number of supporting strands in a pulley system.
41. Interpret the meaning of a stated value for a pulley's real mechanical advantage.
42. Given values related to a suspended mass on a spring, recognize the amplitude of the mass once it is displaced from its equilibrium point.
43. Calculate the intermediate velocity of a mass returning toward the equilibrium point from a position of maximum displacement.
44. Determine the amplitude of a piston in a compressor motor as it executes simple harmonic motion.
45. Calculate an object's apparent depth or actual depth, using indices of refraction.
46. Predict the location of a submerged object's image, when looking into a pool of water.
47. Know the proper placement of a lighted object relative to lenses and mirrors, which will result in parallel rays of light.
48. Know the path of a ray of light relative to the focal point of a diverging lens or mirror.
49.Calculate the maximum acceleration of a mass displaced from its equilibrium point on a spring.
50. How can near sightedness and far sightedness be corrected using lenses?
51. Describe the relationship between the speed of a body and the power of a motor providing the motion.
52. Describe the relationship between mass or velocity and a body's kinetic energy.
53. Compare the work performed when pushing a load up a ramp of given dimensions, with the work performed when lifting the same load vertically to the same elevation.
54. Calculate the mechanical advantage of a pulley system given load, effort, and related distances.
55. Calculate the minimum power necessary to permit a moving body of given mass or weight to change its velocity from one magnitude to another.
56. Know the characteristics that are true for a pendulum in oscillatory motion.
57. Know the relationship between the force applied to a spring causing a unit change in length, and the associated spring constant, and in turn, what happens to the spring's period.
58. Identify, along the path scribed by an oscillating pendulum, where the bob's velocity and acceleration are maximum/minimum.
59. Given a pendulum of given length, mass, and displacement, determine the maximum/minimum potential energy, kinetic energy, and velocity values.
60. Know what happens to the period of a pendulum when length, mass, angular displacement, and gravity change.
61. Know what happens to the period and frequency of an oscillating spring when applied mass, gravity, and spring constant change.
62. Compare the spring constant of a spring with the spring constant of each segment cut from that spring.
63. How is the motion of an oscillating pendulum associated with FWTSinØ?