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  1. transverse waves
    individuals in the stadium do not move when they do the wave
  2. longitudinal waves
    wave particles oscillate parallel to the direction of propagation
  3. frequency
    the number of wavelengths passing a fixed point per second
  4. propagation speed
    frequency x (wavelength)
  5. when waves are out of phase
    • means that crest coincide with the troughs of the other
    • phase difference is one half of a wave (wavelength/2)
    • 180 degrees
  6. when do we hear musical and nonmusical sounds
    • when natural frequency of is within the frequency of human ear
    • when objects vibrate at multiple frequencies unrelated (noise)
  7. resonating
    when applied force is equal to natural frequency, reach max amplitude, wen objects cannot withstand the large amplitude of oscillation it will break
  8. doppler effect
    f'=f (V+/- Vd)/ (V+/- Vs)
  9. intensity
    • average rate of energy transfer per area across a surface that is perpendicular to the wave
    • P/A
    • intensity is proportional to the square of the amplitude
    • A=4pi (r^2)
  10. shock wave
    • when sound travels at or above the speed of sound, allowing wave fronts to build upon one another at the front of the object
    • once object moves aster than speed of sound, some effects are mitigated by the wave fronts trailing behind
  11. intensity of sound equation
    Bf (sound level in decibels)=Bi+10log (If/Ii)
  12. attenuation
    does not affect frequency, only the amplitude and intensity
  13. frequencies and wavelengths of strings
    • fixed at both ends
    • length of string corresponds to 1/2 the wavelength
    • f=nv/2L
    • wavelength=2L/n
  14. open pipes vs closed pipes
    • instruments open at both ends (flute)
    • closed at one end are called closed pipes (clarinet and brass instruments)
  15. frequency and wavelength of closed pipe
    • frequency (nv/4L)
    • wavelength=4L/n
  16. gauge pressure
    difference between absolute pressure and atmospheric pressure
  17. absolute pressure
    pressure at surface+ pressure exerted by fluid (pgz)
  18. fluids at same elevation has what kind of relationship (include velocity of flow)
    • P+1/2pv^2=constant
    • venturi effect (reduction in pressure when traveling through a constricted tube, b/c increase in v)
  19. poiseuille's law
    • flow rate is directly proportional to pressure difference and radius ^4
    • indirectly proportional to viscosity and length
  20. turbulence at high velocities
    • critical speed=N (constant) x viscosity / (density x diameter of tube)
    • flow speed immediately at the wall is zero and increase uniformly throughout the layer
  21. what does equal flow rate mean
    A1v1=A2v2
  22. specific gravity
    density of substance/ density of water
  23. what is equal when object placed in two different fluids
    their buoyant forces
  24. as cork rises to the surface
    its velocity decreases due to viscosity rather than decrease in PE
  25. when cork released from bottom of fluid 1
    • F (buoy) - mg = ma
    • p (fluid)Vg- pcork Vg=pcork Va
  26. pascal's law
    pressure exerted anywhere in an incompressible fluid is exerted equally everywhere
  27. what is the density of water
    1000kg/cm^3
  28. what is the equation for speed with which it emerges out of a hole in tank?
    v=sq rt (2gh)
  29. what is one definition of flow rate?
    Q=Av
  30. blood vessels and arteries are parallel or in series with one another
    • in parallell
    • total resistance of collection of parallel resistors is less than that of any of the individual resistances
  31. what is the relationship between turbulence and viscosity
    increase in turbulence decrease in viscosity
  32. when is continuity equation true
    • when fluid is incompressible
    • Av=Av
  33. fundamental attribution error
    overestimating the effect of the child's personality (the child is lying) and underestimating the situation (the bird flew away)
  34. tonic vs. phasic receptors
    • tonic: adapts slowly to a stimulus and continues to produce action potentials over the duration of the stimulus (pain receptors)
    • phasic: adapt quickly to a stimulus (intense and stops) like mechanoreceptors
  35. glutamate receptor
    transmembrane receptor responsible for excitation of neurons and biosignaling
  36. ionotrophic
    ligand gated ion channels
  37. three components of attitude
    • affective: emotional (dislike welfare recipient so she harbors anger against them)
    • behavioral: not wanting them to live in the  neighborhood)
    • cognitive: belief which include stereotypes (welfare recipients cannot make a living on their own)
  38. belief perseverance
    cognitive bias in which people reject evidence that goes against their beliefs
  39. fluid vs. crystallized intelligence
    • fluid intelligence peaks in early adulthood
    • crystallized intelligence peaks in middle adulthood
  40. what happens when insulin levels fall?
    • decreased uptake of glucose by muscle cells (conserve for brain when glucose is low as indicated by low insulin)
    • increased conversion of glycogen to muscle glucose 
    • increased utilization of fatty acid as fuel
  41. what would happen without leptin
    increased appetite, increased plasma cortisol, not effective thermogenesis and resistance to insulin
  42. osteoclasts and osteoblasts
    osteoclasts break down bone
  43. when can mitochondria DNA replicate?
    • during all phases
    • it has one circular chromosome, doesn't undergo meiosis
  44. obligate anaerobe and how many ATP they produce?
    • must live without oxygen to survive
    • 2 ATP from fermentation
  45. what stage of embryogenesis do the cells not undergo differentiation yet?
    one celled stage (when it divides into two, both are indeterminate)
  46. what are extracellular fluid composed of?
    plasma, interstitial fluid, and transcellular fluid (between epithelial cells like cerebrospinal fluid)
  47. what happens when there is a CLUSTER of non polar groups in water
    increase in entropy as a result of decrease in solvation layer (solvation layer causes decrease in entropy)
  48. what happens when polar proteins are reacted with water
    polar proteins creates solvation layer less than that of non polar proteins (H bond with water is greater than H bond of water with any polar group and polar group H bond disrupts water H bonds)
  49. what happens when one non polar protein reacts in water
    formation of salvation layer, decrease in entropy
  50. what are the different types of muscles in esophagus?
    circulatory muscle layer that can constrict esophagus, longitudinal layer can shorten it
  51. nondisjunction in meiosis two
    you have only the paternal or maternal form of chromosome after meiosis 1. with crossover, you may have two non-idential sister chromatids with both paternal and material DNA
  52. what happens when two alleles are 0.25 centimorgans apart, the predicated probability of inheriting them together is 25% what is the actual %?
    since they are so close together, it is greater than 25% chance that they will be inherited together
  53. neural crest
    from the ectoderm, forms melanocytes, schwann cells, and adrenal medulla, bone, cartilage, smooth muscle
  54. comparing the genetic content of polar bodies and oocytes
    same in type and quantity (haploid with 23 chromosomes)
  55. incomplete vs. codominance
    • incomplete is pink
    • codominance is white and red (blood types is another example)
  56. difference between promotor gene and regulator gene
    • promotor gene: site of RNA pol binding
    • regulator gene: repressor is transcribed
    • operator gene: repressor binds
  57. GTP is directly produced where?
    in the citric acid cycle
  58. pentose phosphate pathway
    • produces NADPH, pentose sugars, ribose-5-phosphate (precursor to nucleotide synthesis)
    • anabolic, uses sugar (6C) to generate R5P
  59. what phase of cell cycle do tublin shorten?
    anaphase
  60. renal corpuscle
    • glomerulus and bowman's capsule (cup like sac)
    • glomerulus allows filtration like a semi-permeable membrane, allows in solutes, not proteins
    • some molecules like salt can diffuse across the glomerulus
  61. describe the action potential stages of muscle contraction
    t-tubule depolarization, SR release of Ca2+, Ca2+ binds to troponin complex, then tropomyosin exposes the myosin binding sites for actin to bind
  62. what layer is the circulatory system formed from?
    mesoderm
  63. endoderm layer forms what?
    lining of digestive tract and respiratory tracts, parts of liver, pancreas, thyroid, and bladder
  64. agonist
    • binds receptor and causes a biological response
    • antagonist inhibits the physiological reaction
  65. noncompetitive inhibitor
    increasing one substrate has no effect on the other
  66. what is the audible frequency
    • 20-20,000 hz
    • infrasonic <20Hz
    • ultrasonic >20,000 Hz
  67. wavelength of visual light
    • 400-700nm
    • gamma, Xray, UV, visual, IR, microwave, radiowaves
    • real men in violent underwear are extremely gorgeous
  68. a change in medium will not affect a light's what?
    • not affect its frequency
    • change in speed is compensated by change in wavelength
    • as refractive index increase, speed of light decrease
  69. diffraction
    • spreading out of light as it passes through a narrow opening
    • slit narrowed, light spread out more
  70. slit lens
    • bright central fringe is twice as wide as bright fringes on sides
    • dark fringes given by a(width)sin(theta)=n(wavelength), n=number of fringe, theta is from central axis to fringe
  71. multiple slits
    young's experiment: light from two parallel slits can interfere with one another
  72. position of dark fringes
    dsin(theta)=(n+1/2)wavelength
  73. thin films
    may cause interference patterns b/c light waves reflecting off external surface of film interferes with light waves reflecting off internal surface of film
  74. diffraction grating
    • multiple slits arranged in patterns
    • super prism: separation of light of different wavelengths with high resolution
    • large number of slits increase sharpness and intensity of light
  75. what is the difference between single and double slits
    interference in double
  76. linear plane polarized light
    • electric fields of all waves are oriented in the same direction (therefore magnetic field vectors are also parallel)
    • screen out all other vibrations except the ones in that plane
  77. circular polarization
    uniform amplitude but continuously changing direction: helical orientation of propagating wave
  78. does polarization affect wavelength of light?
    no, only the amount of light it lets through
  79. single slit diffraction
    • change in theta =wavelength/d
    • smaller wavelength or greater diameter of hole, smaller diffraction
  80. grignard reaction
    R-MgBr (nucleophile) attacks carbonyl to form alcohol (increase in C-C bond) via 6 carbon intermediate
  81. ciliary muscle and focal length
    tense up ciliary muscle, decrease focal length
  82. what happens to the height fluid rises when you apply equal pressure to less dense fluid
    it rises
  83. what does the buoyant force equal?
    weight of displaced fluid
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