AS level Physics - AQA A Q&A

AS level Physics - AQA A Q&A 1) Acceleration - answer-The rate of change of velocity 2) Accurate result - answer-A result that is close to the true answer 3) Apha decay - answer-A type of decay in which an unstable nucleus of an atom emits an alpha particle 4) Alternating current - answer-A current that changes with time in a regular cycle 5) Ammeter - answer-A component used to measure the current flowing through a circuit 6) Amplitude - answer-The maximum displacement of a wave 7) Angle of incidence - answer-The angle that incoming light makes to the normal or a boundry 8) Angle of refraction - answer-The angle that incoming light makes to the normal of a boundary 9) Annihilation - answer-The process by which a particle and its antiparticle meet and their mass gets converted to energy in the form of a pair of gamma ray photons 10) Anomalous result - answer-A result that doesn't fit in with the pattern of the other results in a set of data 11) Antimatter - answer-The name given to all antiparticles