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What is a magnetic field?Magnetic Fields
A vector field influencing magnets and moving charges.
What is a compass used for here?Magnetic Fields
Indicating local magnetic-field direction.
How do like magnetic poles interact?Magnetic Fields
They repel.
Do cut bar magnets isolate a single pole?Magnetic Fields
No, each piece usually has both poles.
When is magnetic force on a moving charge zero?Magnetic Fields
When motion is parallel to the field, or speed is zero.
What is a magnetic dipole?Magnetic Fields
A magnetic structure with north and south behavior.
What creates a magnetic field around a wire?Magnetic Fields
Electric current.
Does magnetic force directly do work on a point charge’s velocity?Magnetic Fields
No; it is perpendicular to velocity in the ideal magnetic-force model.
What is electromagnetic induction?Electromagnetism
Induced emf from changing magnetic flux through a circuit.
What is magnetic flux here?Electromagnetism
A measure of magnetic field through a chosen surface.
When can induced current flow?Electromagnetism
When induced emf acts around a closed conducting path.
What does Lenz’s law specify?Electromagnetism
The induced effect opposes the change in flux.
What produces induced emf?Electromagnetism
Changing magnetic flux linkage.
What does Lenz’s law state?Electromagnetism
The induced response opposes the change in flux.
What is magnetic flux?Electromagnetism
The magnetic-field contribution through a surface.
What is atomic number?Introductory Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Number of protons.
What is mass number?Introductory Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Total number of protons and neutrons.
What are isotopes?Introductory Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Atoms with the same proton number but different neutron numbers.
How many neutrons are in carbon-14?Introductory Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Eight.
What is a half-life?Introductory Atomic and Nuclear Physics
The interval in which the expected undecayed population halves.
What is nuclear fission?Introductory Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Splitting a heavy nucleus into smaller nuclei.
What is nuclear fusion?Introductory Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Combining lighter nuclei.
Can a nuclear change alter element identity?Introductory Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Yes, when proton count changes.