Review Test 4  Fall 2007

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Chapter 11  Gravity

Surface Gravity

Escape Velocity

Orbital Velocity

Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation,

Kepler's 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Laws

Gravitational Potential Energy U

Schwarzschild Radius  

Falling to Earth

Escape Velocity 

Calculating the Mass of the Sun & or Orbiting Planets

Geo-Synchronous & Orbiting Satellites 

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Chapter 12  Conditions for Equilibrium

Shear Stress

Shear Strain

Shear Modulus

Bulk Modulus

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Chapter 14  Simple Harmonic Motion

Period T

Amplitude

Frequency

Angular Frequency

Simple Pendulum

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Chapter R

Impossibility of acceleration of an object to:  c 

Special Theory of Relativity

Relativity Principle

Postulate I, & II (inertial frames)

Constancy of the Speed of Light

Length Contraction 

Addition of Light

Proper Length

Proper Time

Simultaneity    

Spacetime Event

Time Dilation:     

the slowing down of time as a traveler approaches the speed of light. There is no time in a speed-of-light frame of reference. Time is in the universe; the universe is NOT in time. Without the universe, there is no time.

 

  Twin Paradox