SAT Subject Test: Physics TENTH EDITION Hugh Henderson
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,Table of Contents
SAT® Subject Test: Physics
Cover
Title Page
Part One: The Basics
Chapter 1: About the SAT Subject Tests
Common Questions About the SAT Subject Tests
SAT Subject Test Mastery
Chapter 2: Getting Ready for the SAT Subject Test: Physics
Content
Scoring Information
Question Types
Kaplan Strategies
Stress Management
Tips for Just Before the Test
Part Two: Diagnostic Test
Diagnostic Test
How to Take the Diagnostic Test
How to Calculate Your Score
Answer Grid
How to Use the Results of Your Diagnostic Test in Your Review
Diagnostic Test
Diagnostic Test: Answer Key
Diagnostic Test: Answers and Explanations
Part Three: Physics Review
Chapter 3: Measurement, Scalars, and Vectors
Exponents
Graphing
Trigonometry
Scalars and Vectors
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 4: Kinematics
Distance and Displacement
, Speed and Velocity
Acceleration
The Kinematic Equations for Uniformly Accelerated Motion
Graphs of Motion
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 5: Dynamics
Newton’s First Law of Motion
Newton’s Second Law of Motion
Newton’s Third Law of Motion
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 6: Momentum and Impulse
Momentum
Impulse
Conservation of Momentum in One Dimension
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 7: Work and Energy
Work
Energy
Conservation of Energy
Power
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 8: Circular Motion and Rotation
Uniform Circular Motion
Torque
Angular Momentum
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 9: Vibrations
The Dynamics of Harmonic Motion
Energy Considerations in Harmonic Motion
, Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 10: Gravity
Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation
Orbiting Satellites
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 11: Electric Fields, Forces, and Potentials
Charge
Coulomb’s Law
Separation and Transfer of Charge in an Electroscope
Electric Field
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 12: Circuits
Current, Voltage, and Resistance
Power and Joule’s Law of Heating
Circuits with More Than One Resistor
Capacitance and Resistance-Capacitance Circuits
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 13: Magnetic Fields and Forces
Magnetism
Electromagnetic Induction
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 14: General Wave Properties
Basic Properties of Mechanical Waves
Sound Waves and the Doppler Effect
Reflection, Refraction, Diffraction, and Interference of
Mechanical Waves
Standing Waves
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
, Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 15: Reflection and Refraction of Light
Electromagnetic Waves
Reflection of Light
Refraction of Light
Total Internal Reflection
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 16: Polarization, Diffraction, and Interference of Light
Polarization
Diffraction and Interference
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 17: Ray Optics
Mirrors
Lenses
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 18: Heat, Temperature, and Thermodynamics
Heat and Temperature
Specific Heat and Heat Capacity
Phase Changes
The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 19: Gases and Kinetic Theory
Ideal Gases
The Kinetic Theory of Gases
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 20: Quantum Phenomena
Photons and the Photoelectric Effect
The Momentum of a Photon and the Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principle
, Matter Waves and the de Broglie Wavelength of a Particle
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 21: Atomic Physics
Rutherford Model of the Atom
Bohr Model of the Atom
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 22: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Nuclear Structure
Nuclear Binding Energy
Nuclear Reactions
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Chapter 23: Special Relativity
The Two Postulates in the Theory of Special Relativity
Review Questions
Review Questions: Answer Key
Review Questions: Answers and Explanations
Part Four: Practice Tests
Practice Test 1
How to Take the Practice Tests
How to Calculate Your Score
Answer Grid
Practice Test 1
Practice Test 1: Answer Key
Practice Test 1: Answers and Explanations
Practice Test 2
How to Calculate Your Score
Answer Grid
Practice Test 2
Practice Test 2: Answer Key
Practice Test 2: Answers and Explanations
Practice Test 3
How to Calculate Your Score
Answer Grid
, Practice Test 3
Practice Test 3: Answer Key
Practice Test 3: Answers and Explanations
About This Book
Glossary
About the Author
Copyright Information
,Part One
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