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Heather's Physics Flashcards

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What is the name given to a small bundle of energy?   quantum (Bushong, p. 57)  
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What is the rate of the rise and fall of a sine wave?   frequency (Bushong, p. 58)  
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What 3 wave parameters are needed to describe electromagnetic energy?   velocity, frequecy, wavelength (Bushong, p. 59)  
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What does the wave-particle duality phenomenon suggest about photons?   Photons exibit behavior similar to both waves and particles (Bushong, p. 63)  
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What is the study of stationary electric charges?   electrostatics (Bushong, p. 73)  
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What are three ways electrification can be created?   contact, friction, or induction ((Bushong, p.73)  
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According to Coulomb's law, the electrostatic force is directly proportional to what?   the product of the electrostatic charges (Bushong, p. 76)  
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What is the unit of electrical potential?   Volt (Bushong, p. 77)  
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The ratio of the number of secondary windings to the number of primary windings in a high-voltage transformer is called the __________.   Turns ratio (Bushong, p. 109)  
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What kind of current do automatic transformers operate on?   alternating current (Bushong, p. 109)  
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The process of converting AC to DC is called ___________.   Rectification (Bushong, p. 110)  
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The cloud of electrons that forms around the filament is referred to as ______________   the space charge (Bushong, p. 124)  
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The primary purpose of adding filtration to the x-ray beam is to:   remove low-energy x-rays (Bushong, p. 157)  
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What is the term used to describe the reduction in x-ray intensity that results from absorption and scatter?   attenuation (Bushong, p. 155)  
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The energy of the Compton-scattered x-ray is equal to the difference between the energy of what two things?   the energy of the incident x-ray and the energy of the ejected electron (Bushong, p. 164)  
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How does Compton scatter affect image contrast?   It reduces contrast (Bushong, p. 165)  
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When an x-ray interacts with inner-shell electrons and is completely absorbed, it has undergone which interaction?   photoelectric (Bushong, p. 165)  
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What is the maximum number of electrons that can occupy the N shell?   32 (Bushong,p. 43)  
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The cones are concentrated in what part of the eye?   In the center of the retina, an area called the fovea centralis (Bushong,p. 348)  
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Which receptor in the eye is responsible for night vision, or scotopic vision?   the rods (Bushong,p. 348)  
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Name the electronic device that receives the image-forming x-ray beam and converts it into a visible-light image of high intensity.   Image intensifier (Bushong, p. 349)  
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The ratio of the number of light photons at the output phosphor to the number of x-rays at the input phosphor is called _______ _______.   Flux gain (Bushong, p. 351)  
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The ratio of the square of the diameter of the input phosphor to the square of the diameter of the output phosphor is the _________ ______.   Minification gain (Bushong, p. 351)  
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The ability of an image intensifier to incrase the illumination level of the image is called its _________ _____.   Brightness gain (Bushong,p. 351_  
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Atoms that have the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons are called ____________.   Isotopes (Bushong, p. 41)  
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The component of the x-ray tube that is negatively charged and confines the electron beam to a small area of the anode is called the:   focusing cup (Bushong, p. 123)  
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What material is the target of the anode primarily composed of?   Tungsten (Bushong,p. 126)  
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True or False: The actual x-ray source is the focal spot.   True (Bushong,p. 128)  
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When considering the anode-heel effect, a radiograph of the chest should have the cathode side of the tube positioned on the a. inferior or b. superior thorax?   a. inferior (the thicker anatomy) (Bushong, p. 131)  
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