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Kinematics   branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion  
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Kinetics   the branch of mechanics that deals with the actions of forces in producing or changing the motion of masses  
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Statics   branch of mechanics that deals with bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium  
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Dynamics   deals with the motion and equilibrium of systems under the actions of forces  
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Three/Four Fundamental Forces   Gravity, Strong Nuclear, Electroweak (Weak Nuclear and Electromagnetic)  
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Moment of Inertia   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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Torque   product of force and the lever arm; produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation  
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Hooke's Law   Elastic force of a spring or similar object (F=-kx)  
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Coulomb's Law   force between two charged particles are inversely squared  
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Maxwell's Equations   Gauss's Laws, Faraday's Law, and Ampere's Law with Maxwell's correction  
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Gauss's Law   relates electric charge to electric field  
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Gauss's Law for magnetism   magnetic monopoles do not exist  
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Faraday's Law   Induced EMF in any closed circuit is equal to the time rate of change of the magnetic flux through the circuit  
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Ampere's Law   relates electric current to magnetic field produced; related to Biot-Savart Law  
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Lorentz Force   force on a point charge due to electromagnetic fields  
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Kirchoff's Current Law   total current into a point on a circuit equals total current out  
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Kirchoff's Voltage Law   total potential difference around a loop equals zero  
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Lens'z Law   "induced current is always in such a direction as to oppose.. change causing it"; nature abhors changes in flux  
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Joule's First Law   power produced (dissipated as heat) in a resistor  
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Aerodynamics   study of the flow of gases  
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Archimedes' Principle   bouyant force is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced  
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Pascal's Law   pressure change is conveyed uniformly throughout a fluid  
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Bernoulli's Principle   relates kinetic and potential energies to pressure in fluid flows  
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Navier-Stokes Equations   PDEs that determine motion of particles in a fluid (most of CFD)  
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LASER   Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation; coherent beam of light  
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Critical Angle   smallest angle for total internal refraction  
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Fluorescence   emission of radiation by an object as a result of absorption of other radiation  
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Photon   single unit of EM radiation; particle/wave duality  
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Doppler Effect   apparent shift in frequency from moving source  
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Fermat's Principle   between any two points, light takes the path that requires the least time  
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Snell's Law (of Refraction)   index of refraction *sin of angle = constant  
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Huygens(-Fresnel) Principle   wave fronts serve as sources of new wavelets (diffraction, etc.)  
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Young's Double Slit   proved wave nature of light by demonstrating diffraction  
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Planck Relation   relates frequency and energy by namesake constant (E=hv)  
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Enthalpy (H)   internal energy plus pressure times volume  
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Entropy (S)   a measure of disorder based on the number of equivalent micro states  
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Helmholtz Free Energy   useful work attainable from a closed system  
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Gibbs Free Energy   useful work attainable from an isothermal, isobaric system  
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Carnot Engine   heat engine with cycle of isothermal expansion, isentropic (reversible adiabatic) expanstion, isothermal compression, and isentropic compression  
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Fusion/Melting   transition from solid to liquid phase  
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Freezing   transition from liquid to solid phase (opposite of melting)  
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Sublimation   transition directly from solid to gas phase  
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Deposition   transition directly from gas to solid phase (opposite of sublimation)  
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Gasization   transition from liquid to gas phase  
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Boiling   gasization originating with sub-surface bubbles  
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Kelvin (SI Unit)   starts at absolute zero; increments equal to 1 C  
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Celsius (Centigrade)   defines with 0C as freezing point of water and 100C as boiling point  
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Fahrenheit   water freezes at 32F, boils at 212F; zero is temp of ammonium chloride and ice  
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Rankine   starts at absolute zero; increments equal to 1F  
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Isobaric   constant pressure  
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Isothermal   constant temperature  
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Isochoric   constant volume  
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Adiabatic   no heat flow  
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0th Law of Thermodynamics   transitive property of thermal equilibrium  
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1st Law of Thermodynamics   change in internal energy is sum of heat into the system and work done by the system  
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2nd Law of Thermodynamics   Total entropy of any isolated system tends to increase over time  
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3rd Law of Thermodynamics   processes cease and entropy goes to zero at absolute zero  
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Carnot's Theorem/Rule   no engine operating between two heat reservoirs can be more efficient than a comparable Carnot Engine  
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Joule's Second Law   internal energy of an ideal gas depends only on temperature  
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Fermions   elementary particles with half-integer spin (1/2 for all known fermions)  
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Quarks   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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Leptons   have no strong interaction; electron(-1), electron neutrino(0), muon(-1), muon neutrino(0), tauon (-1), tauon neutrino(0)  
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Bosons   elementary particles with integer spin; mediate fundamental forces  
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photon   electromagnetic force; 0 charge; 1 spin; 0 mass  
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W Boson   weak nuclear force; -1 charge; 1 spin  
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Z Boson   weak nuclear foce; 0 charge; 1 spin  
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Gluon   strong nuclear force; 0 charge; 1 spin  
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Higgs Boson   endows particle masses via Higgs Mechanism; 0 charge; 0 spin  
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Graviton   gravitational force; 0 charge; 2 spin  
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Hadron   strongly interacting composite particles  
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Baryons   composite fermions (ordinarty baryons have 3 valence quarks/antiquarks)  
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Nucleons   fermionic constituents of atomic nuclei  
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Protons   two up quarks, one down quark; +1 charge  
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Neutrons   two down quarks, one up quark; 0 charge  
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Hyperons   contain strange quarks; heavy and short-lived  
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Mesons   composite bosons; ordinary have a quark and an antiquark in addition to bosons  
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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle   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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Schrodinger Equation   describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes over time  
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Pauli Exclusion Principle   no two identical fermions may occupy the same quantum state  
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Dirac Equation   Matrix form of the Schrodinger Equation  
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Stefan-Boltzmann Law   energy radiated per unit surface area of black bodies proportional to fourth power of temperature  
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Planck's Law   describes the spectral radiance of electromagnetic radiation at all wavelengths from a black body at temperature T  
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Hubble's Law   velocity at which galaxies recede from the earth proportional to distance  
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Special Relativity   physical theory of measurement in inertial frames of reference  
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Time Dilation   variance of time observation between observers depending on the relative speeds of the observers' frames of reference  
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twin paradox   twin flies in spaceship near light speed and returns to much older twin  
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Lorentz Contraction   length measure by one observer smaller than tat from another  
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Equivalence of mass and energy   energy content of mass at rest is mc*2  
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Lorentz Transformation   expression of spatial dimensions in those of a given reference frame based on the speed of that frame; involves Lorentz factor  
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General Relativity   geometric theory of gravitation; describes gravity as a geometric property of spacetime  
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