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show branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion  
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show the branch of mechanics that deals with the actions of forces in producing or changing the motion of masses  
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Statics   show
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Dynamics   show
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show Gravity, Strong Nuclear, Electroweak (Weak Nuclear and Electromagnetic)  
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show Resistance to rotational motion equal to the products of the mass and the square of the perpendicular distance to the axis of rotation of each particle in a body  
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show product of force and the lever arm; produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation  
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show Elastic force of a spring or similar object (F=-kx)  
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show force between two charged particles are inversely squared  
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Maxwell's Equations   show
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Gauss's Law   show
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Gauss's Law for magnetism   show
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Faraday's Law   show
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show relates electric current to magnetic field produced; related to Biot-Savart Law  
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Lorentz Force   show
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Kirchoff's Current Law   show
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show total potential difference around a loop equals zero  
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show "induced current is always in such a direction as to oppose.. change causing it"; nature abhors changes in flux  
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show power produced (dissipated as heat) in a resistor  
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Aerodynamics   show
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Archimedes' Principle   show
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show pressure change is conveyed uniformly throughout a fluid  
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show relates kinetic and potential energies to pressure in fluid flows  
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Navier-Stokes Equations   show
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LASER   show
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Critical Angle   show
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show emission of radiation by an object as a result of absorption of other radiation  
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show single unit of EM radiation; particle/wave duality  
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show apparent shift in frequency from moving source  
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Fermat's Principle   show
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Snell's Law (of Refraction)   show
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show wave fronts serve as sources of new wavelets (diffraction, etc.)  
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Young's Double Slit   show
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show relates frequency and energy by namesake constant (E=hv)  
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show internal energy plus pressure times volume  
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show a measure of disorder based on the number of equivalent micro states  
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show useful work attainable from a closed system  
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Gibbs Free Energy   show
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show heat engine with cycle of isothermal expansion, isentropic (reversible adiabatic) expanstion, isothermal compression, and isentropic compression  
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Fusion/Melting   show
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show transition from liquid to solid phase (opposite of melting)  
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show transition directly from solid to gas phase  
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Deposition   show
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show transition from liquid to gas phase  
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show gasization originating with sub-surface bubbles  
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Kelvin (SI Unit)   show
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Celsius (Centigrade)   show
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show water freezes at 32F, boils at 212F; zero is temp of ammonium chloride and ice  
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show starts at absolute zero; increments equal to 1F  
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show constant pressure  
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Isothermal   show
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Isochoric   show
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Adiabatic   show
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0th Law of Thermodynamics   show
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show change in internal energy is sum of heat into the system and work done by the system  
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show Total entropy of any isolated system tends to increase over time  
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show processes cease and entropy goes to zero at absolute zero  
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Carnot's Theorem/Rule   show
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Joule's Second Law   show
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show elementary particles with half-integer spin (1/2 for all known fermions)  
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show Type of fermion that are components of hadrons; only known fractional charge; interact via strong force; flavors include: up (+2/3), down(-1/3), top(+2/3), bottom(-2/3), charm(+2/3), and strange(-1/3)  
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show have no strong interaction; electron(-1), electron neutrino(0), muon(-1), muon neutrino(0), tauon (-1), tauon neutrino(0)  
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show elementary particles with integer spin; mediate fundamental forces  
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photon   show
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W Boson   show
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show weak nuclear foce; 0 charge; 1 spin  
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Gluon   show
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Higgs Boson   show
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Graviton   show
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show strongly interacting composite particles  
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show composite fermions (ordinarty baryons have 3 valence quarks/antiquarks)  
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show fermionic constituents of atomic nuclei  
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show two up quarks, one down quark; +1 charge  
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show two down quarks, one up quark; 0 charge  
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Hyperons   show
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Mesons   show
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show specific pairs of physical properties cannot both be known to arbitrary precision; the better you know one, the worse you know the other  
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show describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes over time  
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Pauli Exclusion Principle   show
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show Matrix form of the Schrodinger Equation  
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show energy radiated per unit surface area of black bodies proportional to fourth power of temperature  
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show describes the spectral radiance of electromagnetic radiation at all wavelengths from a black body at temperature T  
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show velocity at which galaxies recede from the earth proportional to distance  
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Special Relativity   show
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show variance of time observation between observers depending on the relative speeds of the observers' frames of reference  
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show twin flies in spaceship near light speed and returns to much older twin  
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show length measure by one observer smaller than tat from another  
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Equivalence of mass and energy   show
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Lorentz Transformation   show
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show geometric theory of gravitation; describes gravity as a geometric property of spacetime  
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