Physics Olympiad Flashcards
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| 8552956933 | 1. Law of Inertia | 0 | ||
| 8552958606 | Specific Heat Capacity | - Amount of heat energy needed to raise 1kg of a substance by 1K - Joules per kelvin per kilogram | 1 | |
| 8552969838 | Snell's Law | 2 | ||
| 8553004942 | Weight | - Force on an object due to gravity - mass x gravitational acceleration - Newtons (N) | 3 | |
| 8559533569 | Luminosity | Amount of electromagnetic energy a body radiates per unit of time | 4 | |
| 8611278963 | Density = | Mass / Volume | 5 | |
| 8611305968 | Superposition | When two or more waves of the same type cross, their amplitudes are combined. | 6 | |
| 8611313842 | Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures | The total pressure of a gas mixture is the sum of the partial pressure of each individual gas. (If the gases do not react) | 7 | |
| 8611324974 | Ionisation Energy | Energy needed to remove an electron from an atom. | 8 | |
| 8611346568 | Fractional Distillation | Separation of a liquid mixture into fractions of different boiling points (and hence chemical composition). i.e. Substances with a high boiling point cool first and so on. | 9 |