在SATⅡ的课程中，SATⅡ物理是国内学生选修较多的课程。国内高中物理课的分量也越来越重，而且物理所在的科学类目在申请国外的学校时使用的范围较广，如计算机类、机械类、物理学、电子工程类、电机类学科等大部分理科专业，都与物理相关。因此，小伙伴们如果想要就读的学校要求SATⅡ成绩，且自己也想要就读理科系的话，那么选修一门SATⅡ物理就十分必要了。
想要拿到满意的考试成绩，一定要注意对SATⅡ物理课程中涉及到的专业词汇进行系统和有针对性的学习。很多学生的应试解题能力都是很高的，但却在专业词汇方面吃了亏，由于对词汇的不熟悉，导致解题失误、考试分数不尽人意的情况比比皆是。因此，想要取得好的SATⅡ物理成绩，不仅要学好课程内容，对SATⅡ物理单词的牢固掌握也不能忽视。
Calorie
The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius. 1 cal = 4.19 J.
Celsius
A scale for measuring temperature, defined such that water freezes at 0oC and boils at 100oC. 0oC = 273 K.
Center of curvature
With spherical mirrors, the center of the sphere of which the mirror is a part. All of the normals pass through it.
Center of mass
Given the trajectory of an object or system, the center of mass is the point that has the same acceleration as the object or system as a whole would have if its mass were concentrated at that point. In terms of force, the center of mass is the point at which a given net force acting on a system will produce the same acceleration as if the system’s mass were concentrated at that point.
Centripetal acceleration
The acceleration of a body experiencing uniform circular motion. This acceleration is always directed toward the center of the circle.
Centripetal force
The force necessary to maintain a body in uniform circular motion. This force is always directed radially toward the center of the circle.
Chain reaction
The particles and energy released by the fission or fusion of one atom may trigger the fission or fusion of further atoms. In a chain reaction, fission or fusion is rapidly transferred to a large number of atoms, releasing tremendous amounts of energy.
Charles’s Law
For a gas held at constant pressure, temperature and volume are directly proportional.
Coefficient of kinetic friction
The coefficient of kinetic friction, , for two materials is the constant of proportionality between the normal force and the force of kinetic friction. It is always a number between zero and one.
Coefficient of linear expansion
A coefficient that tells how much a material will expand or contract lengthwise when it is heated or cooled.
Coefficient of static friction
The coefficient of static friction, for two materials is the constant of proportionality between the normal force and the maximum force of static friction. It is always a number between zero and one.
Coefficient of volume expansion
A coefficient that tells how much the volume of a solid will change when it is heated or cooled.
Coherent light
Light such that all of the associated waves have the same wavelength and are in phase.
Collision
When objects collide, each object feels a force for a short amount of time. This force imparts an impulse, or changes the momentum of each of the colliding objects. The momentum of a system is conserved in all kinds of collisions. Kinetic energy is conserved in elastic collisions, but not in inelastic collisions. In a perfectly inelastic collision, the colliding objects stick together after they collide.
Completely inelastic collision
A collision in which the colliding particles stick together.
Component
Any vector can be expressed as the sum of two mutually perpendicular component vectors. Usually, but not always, these components are multiples of the basis vectors, and that is, vectors along the x-axis and y-axis. We define these two vectors as the x- and y-components of the vector.
Compression
An area of high air pressure that acts as the wave crest for sound waves. The spacing between successive compressions is the wavelength of sound, and the number of successive areas of compression that arrive at the ear per second is the frequency, or pitch, of the sound.
Concave lens
Also called a diverging lens, a lens that is thinner in the middle than at the edges. Concave lenses refract light away from a focal point.
Concave mirror
A mirror that is curved such that its center is farther from the viewer than the edges, such as the front of a spoon. Concave mirrors reflect light through a focal point.
Conduction
Heat transfer by molecular collisions.
Conservation of Angular Momentum
If the net torque acting on a rigid body is zero, then the angular momentum of the body is constant or conserved.
Conservation of momentum
The principle stating that for any isolated system, linear momentum is constant with time.
Constant of proportionality
A constant in the numerator of a formula.
Constructive interference
The amplification of one wave by another, identical wave of the same sign. Two constructively interfering waves are said to be “in phase.”
完整版外加中文注解尽在SAT2物理常用词汇！！！
1. 物理常用单位及换算
2. 物理常用术语、常用公式的英文表示
3. 合力、分力及计算
4. 重力分解，分力计算
5. 摩擦力方向及大小计算
6. 弹簧力计算，胡克定律，弹性势能大小计算
7. 牛顿第二定律的实验证明
8. 牛顿第二定律具体应用—系统法
9. 牛顿第二定律具体应用—系统分解法
10. 标量与矢量: 位移vs距离，速度vs速率
11. 匀速直线运动计算，平均速度计算
12. 匀加速直线运动计算
13. 竖直上抛运动计算
14. 平抛运动计算
15. 斜抛运动计算
16. 圆周运动计算
17. 开普勒行星运动三大公式
18. 近地卫星、同步卫星、第一、第二宇宙速度公式及计算说明
19. 运动的合成与分解—静水速度应用
20. v-t图像，s-t图像的相互转化
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