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What is the wavelength of an x ray?
about the size of an atom
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What is the frequency of ultrasound?
20,000Hz, higher than the upper limit of human hearing
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How are ultrasound waves used for diagnosis?
Partly reflected at a boundary between two different types of body tissue
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Which way will a light ray refract when it goes from air to glass
towards the normal
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what is total internal reflection?
when the angle of incidence is greater than than the critical anlge
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What are optical fibres?
thin, flexible pieces of glass used in endoscopes, by use total internal reflection
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what controls how much light enters the eyes?
the iris
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where does light enter the eye?
the pupil
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what changes the thickness of the lens?
the ciliary muscles attached to the suspensory ligaments
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what helps the eye lens to focus light onto the retina?
the cornea (the transparent layer)
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what is the range of vision of the human eye?
25cm to infinity
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How do treat someone who cannot see near objects because of a short eyeball/weak lens (long sightedness)?
use a converging lens so light rays are focused on the retina
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How do treat someone who cannot see distant objects because of a long eyeball (short sightedness)?
use a diverging lens so light rays are focussed on the retina (instead of before it)
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What is a moment?
the turning effect of a force
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What is the centripetal force?
The resultant force that cause an object moving in a circle to accelerate
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What does the time period of an oscillation (time taken to complete one cycle) depend on?
the length of the pendulum
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why will a pendulum with an oscillating motion come to rest if not pushed?
because energy is transferred to friction at the top of the pendulum and due to air resistance
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What is the motor effect?
when a wire carrying a current is placed in a magnetic field, so it experiences a force
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How is a pd induced across the ends of conductor?
If an electrical conductor cuts through a magnetic field
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what kind of transformer makes the pd across the secondary coil greater than that on the primary coil?
a step up transformer
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what kind of transformer makes the pd across the primary coil greater than that on the secondary coil?
a step down transformer
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Which transformer is much lighter and small and operates at a much higher frequency?
a switch mode transformer
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