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  2. Error Carried Forward - Wikipedia

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    The college board has been known to employ ECF in both the AP Calculus AB and AP Physics B exams. [2] However, the college board does not award ECF marks if an incorrect answer changes the latter parts of question too drastically.

  3. Fermi problem - Wikipedia

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    A Fermi problem (or Fermi question, Fermi quiz), also known as an order-of-magnitude problem, is an estimation problem in physics or engineering education, designed to teach dimensional analysis or approximation of extreme scientific calculations. Fermi problems are usually back-of-the-envelope calculations.

  4. g-force - Wikipedia

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    The reason for the minus sign is that the actual force (i.e., measured weight) on an object produced by a g-force is in the opposite direction to the sign of the g-force, since in physics, weight is not the force that produces the acceleration, but rather the equal-and-opposite reaction force to it.

  5. GCSE - Wikipedia

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    However the exam papers of the GCSE sometimes had a choice of questions, designed for the more able and the less able candidates. When introduced the GCSEs were graded from A to G, with a C being set as roughly equivalent to an O-Level Grade C or a CSE Grade 1 and thus achievable by roughly the top 25% of each cohort.

  6. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    Total population living in extreme poverty, by world region 1987 to 2015. The total number of people living in extreme absolute poverty globally, by the widely used metric of $1.00/day (in 1990 U.S. dollars) has decreased over the last several decades, but most people surveyed in several countries incorrectly think it has increased or stayed ...

  7. Electromagnetic spectrum - Wikipedia

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    In atomic and nuclear physics, the distinction between X-rays and gamma rays is based on sources: the photons generated from nuclear decay or other nuclear and subnuclear/particle process are termed gamma rays, whereas X-rays are generated by electronic transitions involving energetically deep inner atomic electrons.

  8. Nuclear chain reaction - Wikipedia

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    Since nuclear chain reactions may only require natural materials (such as water and uranium, if the uranium has sufficient amounts of 235 U), it was possible to have these chain reactions occur in the distant past when uranium-235 concentrations were higher than today, and where there was the right combination of materials within the Earth's crust.

  9. Copenhagen interpretation - Wikipedia

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    In a 1935 paper, Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen pointed out that, in this state, if the position of the first particle were measured, the result of measuring the position of the second particle could be predicted. If instead the momentum of the first particle were measured, then the result of measuring the momentum of the second ...