AQA Combined Science: Physics paper 2

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Direction and size
Vector
Size and no specific direction
Scalar
Size of a quantity
Magnitude
Distance with no change in direction
Displacement
A push or a pull on an object
Force
A force where to objects must touch each other to interact
Contact
Examples:
Friction
 
Air resistance
 
Tension
Non-contact:
Magnetic
 
Electrostatic
 
Gravitational
Newton's third law: When two objects ____
Interact
they _____
Exert
____ and _______ forces on each other
equal opposite
The single effect of multiple forces
Resultant
Newton's first law of motion: if the resultant force acting on an object is __:
0
If the object is at ____, it remains _______.
rest stationary
If the object is in motion, it keeps moving with the same _____
Velocity
____-____ diagrams:
Free-body
They show the forces acting on an object. Each vector is represented by an _____
arrow
The ______ of _____ of an object is the point at which its mass is ___________.
Centre mass concentrated
Know how to use a ______ of forces
Parallelogram
Know how to use a ______ of forces
Resolution
Key conditions for an object to be in equilibrium: _______ _____ is zero
Resultant force
The forces have no overall _____ effect
Turning
Gradient of a distance-time graph shows ______
Speed
Gradient of a speed-time graph shows ______
Acceleration
Velocity is _____ in a given ______
Speed direction
The area under a velocity-time graph shows ______ (or ________)
Distance displacement
By using a ______, you can find the speed/acceleration/rate of change of something on a graph
Tangent
Newton's ______ law of motion says that the acceleration of an object:
Second
Is _______ to the resultant force on the object
Proportional
Is _____ ________ to the mass of the object
Inversely proportional
The tendency of an object to stay at rest or continue in uniform motion.
Inertia
The ______ of an object, is the force on it due to gravity
Weight
The mass of an object depends on the ______ of ______
Quantity matter
When an object falls in a ____
Fluid
and its speed _______, the resultant force on the object ______
increases decreases
Because the ______ force on the object _______, the acceleration of the object _______, because the resultant force _______
Frictional increases decreases
Where an object is in ____ ____ and the resultant force on the object is zero
Free fall
Meaning of previous
Terminal velocity
The stopping distance of a vehicle is broken up into _____ distance
Braking
and ______ distance
Thinking
Factors affecting stopping distance of a vehicle:
Speed of vehicle
 
Mass of vehicle
Poorly _______ vehicles
Maintained
Adverse ____ conditions
Road
Tiredness, _____, or drugs
Alcohol
Momentum is a ______ quantity
Vector
Symbol for momentum
p
Units of momentum
kg m/s
When two objects of equal mass and opposite velocity collide, they are both at ____
Rest
This is because the total momentum is ______
Unchanged
Or _______
Conserved
In a _____ system,
Closed
The total momentum ______ an event
Before
is _____ to the momentum ______ an event
Equal after
RPA:
Conservation of momentum
An ______ object will return to its original shape when a force is removed from it
Elastic
Increase in length from its original
Extension
_______'s law:
Hooke
The extension of a spring is _______ proportional
Directly
If a force is too big, the object may extend more than predicted. It has exceeded its _____ of _______
Limit proportionality
Sound waves, water waves are examples of ______ waves
Mechanical
These are ______ which travel through a _____
vibrations medium
Light waves, radio waves, microwaves are examples are _______ waves
Electromagnetic
Where direction of oscillations are parallel to direction of energy transfer
Longitudinal
Where oscillations are perpendicular to direction of energy transfer
Transverse
The maximum displacement of a wave
Amplitude
The bigger the amplitude of the wave, the more _____ the waves carry
Energy
The distance between two equivalent points on adjacent waves
Wavelength
The number of waves that pass a fixed point every second
Frequency
Unit for question above
Hertz
The change in direction of a wave when they cross a boundary between one medium and another medium
Refraction
EM spectrum:
Radio
 
Microwaves
 
Infrared
 
Visible light
 
Ultraviolet
 
X-rays
 
Gamma rays
Speed of light (m/s)
300 000 000
Light form ordinary lamps and the sun is called
White light
Because it contains ____ colours from the visible light spectrum
all
The _____ an object is, the more infrared radiation it will emit
hotter
_______ fibres in communication use infrared instead of visible light
Optical
This is because infrared is _______ ____ than visible light in glass fibres
absorbed less
Remote control handsets for __s
TV
Infrared scanners used in _______
medicine
They detect _______ in the body
hotspots
These (above) can mean the skin below is ________
Unhealthy
Infrared ______ to see people in the dark
Cameras
Microwaves have a ______ wavelength than radio waves
Shorter
They are useful for _______
Communications
This is because they can pass through the ______
Atmosphere
They can also heat ____
Food
They send out waves of the same frequency as the __________ of water
Resonance
Radio waves carry TV, radio and _____ _____ signals
mobile phone
__________ also uses radio waves for connecting to a mouse or headphones and has a range of __ metres
Bluetooth 10
The shorter the wavelength: The more _______ they can carry due to there being more waves in a given time period.
Information
The shorter their _____ due to increased absorption from the atmosphere
Range
The less they ______ out
Spread
An ________ supplies carrier waves to the transmitter in the form of alternating current.
Oscillator
The audio signal is supplied to the transmitter where it is used to modulate the carrier waves. The ________ carrier waves are supplied to the transmitter ariel.
modulated
The varying alternating current supplied to the ariel causes it to emit radio _____ which carry the audio signal
Waves
When the radio waves are absorbed by a receiver _____, an alternating current is induced in the receiver ariel, which causes oscillations in the receiver.
Ariel
Optical fibres are more ______ as the signals stay in the fibre
Secure
UV waves carry more energy than _____ _____ waves
Visible light
UV rays can cause ______....
Sunburn
...and skin ______
Damage
X-____ are very short wavelength and carry much more energy per second than longer wavelengths
Rays
X-rays are produced when ______ or other particles moving at high speeds are ______
Electrons stopped
Gamma rays are produced when the _____ in radioactive substances ______
Nuclei decay
Gamma has a shorter wavelength than X-rays so can _______ substances more than X-rays can
Penetrate
Exposing food to gamma rays can kill __% of disease carrying organisms
99
Exposing surgical ______ in plastic wrappers kills an bacteria on them
Instruments
X-rays and gamma rays passing through substances can _____ electrons out of atoms
Knock
The atoms become ______ because they loose electrons
Charged
This process is called _______
Ionisation
________ to too many X-rays and gamma rays is dangerous and increases the risk of ______
Exposure cancer
High _____ kill living cells and low _____ cause gene mutation and cancerous growth
Doses
An X-ray can pass through ____ ______
Soft tissue
But they are absorbed by _____, teeth and metal objects which aren't too thin
Bones
The parts of the film which the X-rays reach become ______ than other parts
Darker
An organ that consists of soft tissue can be filled with a substance called a _____ _____
Contrast medium
For example, to obtain a radiograph of a stomach, a patient will be given a _____ meal beforehand
Barium
(The element above) is a ____ absorber of X-rays
Good
____ plates between the patient and the tube stop X-rays from reaching other parts of the body
Lead
The _______ ____received by a person is a measure of how much damage has been done to their body by ionising radiation
Radiation dose
The dose depends on: The ____ of radiation used
Type
How ____ the body is exposed to it
Long
The energy per ______ absorbed by the body from the radiation
Second
Radiation dose is measured in _______ (you don't need to know)
Sieverts
Everyone is exposed to ________ radiation
Background
Like charges ______
Repel
Unlike charges ______
Attract
Any ____ or _____ object can be magnetised
Iron steel
The region around a magnet
Magnetic field
Any other magnetic material placed in this space experiences a _____ caused by the first object
Force
Iron filing and plotting compasses ______ themselves along magnetic field lines
Align
The lines are more ________ at the poles
Concentrated
The field lines go from ______ to ______
North South
An unmagnetised material can be magnetised by placing it in a ______ ______
Magnetic field
The magnetic field is said to ______ magnetism
Induce
The force is always _______ whichever end of the bar magnet is closest to the bar magnet
Attractive
When an ______ ______ passes along a wire, a magnetic field is set up around the wire
Electric current
You can use _____ ____ grip rule
Right hand
A _______ is a long coil of insulated wire
Solenoid
The magnetic field: Increases in strength when ______ is increased
Current
________ its direction when current is _______
Reverse
The magnetic field is much _______ than if the wire was straight
Stronger
The field lines are _______ to the axis of the solenoid...
Parallel
...and they are all in _______ direction
Uniform
The field lines outside of a solenoid are like a bar magnet but instead each field line is a _______ ____ as it passes through the solenoid
Complete loop
An _________ is a solenoid where the insulated wire is wrapped around an iron core.
Elecctromagnet
The magnetic field of the wire _______ the iron bar
Magnetises
When the current is _______ off, the iron bar loses most of its magnetism
Switched
The ______ effect
Motor
Where a force can act on a ____ in a magnetic field when a current is passed through a ____.
Wire
The size of the force can be increased by: increasing the _____
Current
Using a ______ magnet
Stronger
The force is greatest when the wire is _______ to the magnetic field
Perpendicular
Zero when the magnetic field lines are _______ to the wire
Parallel
Rule used to find the direction of the force
Flemming's left hand
The magnetic ____ _______is the measure of the strength of the magnetic field
Flux density
The symbol is _
B
And the unit is (T)
Tesla
The size of the force on a conductor: The ______ through the conductor
Current
The ______ of the conductor
Length
The ________ ____ ______ of the magnetic field
Magnetic flux density
You need to know how an electric motor works including the _____-____ communicator
Split-ring
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