Physics
The process of evaporation occurs • View Available Hint(S) O at the bottom of the liquid at the surface of the liquid everywhere in the liquid only within the liquid
At the surface of the liquid
When a pot of water is being heated in a cookstove, what process takes the heat from the bottom of the pot to the surface of the water? • View Available Hint(s) • Convection • Conduction • Heat O Radiation
Convection
Newton's law of cooling applies to objects that undergo • only warming only cooling cooling or warming neither cooling nor warming
Cooling or warming
What happens to the current in a circuit where the resistance is kept constant and the voltage is double? • View Available Hint(s) • Current also doubles. • Current will increase. • Current stays the same. • Current will be cut in half.
Current also doubles
Condensation is a change of phase from gas to liquid • from liquid to gas • without energy transfer • from solid or liquid to gas
From gas to liquid
A voltage source in a circuit provides electrical • View Available Hint(s) O force • resistance • pressure • grounding
Pressure
Which of these has the highest specific heat capacity? © Water O Soil O Iron O Silver
Water
How do you compare the charge of the electron versus the charge of the proton? • View Available Hint(s) • They have different magnitudes and signs. • The electron has a lower magnitude of the charge, but the same sign. • They are the same charge. • The same magnitude, but opposite signs.
the same magnitude but opposite signs
Escape speed from Earth is any speed equal to or greater than • 5 km/s • 9 km/s • 11.2 km/s • 620 km/s
11.2km/s
An electric field is induced by. • View Available Hint(s) • a constant magnetic field O a magnetic pole • an electric charge © a changing magnetic field
A changing magnetic field
Faraday's law states that induced voltage in a loop of wire depends upon the rate at which • View Available Hint(s) current is made to oscillate within the loop O a magnet is thrust into the loop • a magnetic field in the loop changes voltage changes
A magnetic field in the loop
An electric field is • View Available Hint(s) a vector quantity O a source of voltage • an invisible force • the same as a gravitational field
A vector quantity
Heat always flows spontaneously from • View Available Hint(s) • a hot object to another hot object a cooler to a warmer object a warmer to a cooler object any object to another
A warmer to a cooler object
The vibrations along a longitudinal wave move in a direction • View Available Hint(s) along and parallel to the wave • neither along nor perpendicular to the wave • both along and perpendicular to the wave perpendicular to the wave
Along and parallel to the wave
Atmospheric pressure decreases with increasing • View Available Hint(s) • temperature speed of molecules in the air amounts of sunshine altitude
Altitude
To double the rotational speed the centripetal force must . double • stay the same . increase . be four times larger
Be four times larger
Boiling is evaporation that mainly occurs • at the bottom of a container of heated water • when water becomes overly hot at the surface of water below the surface and throughout water
Below the surface and throughout water
Compare the age of the atoms in your body with the age of the atoms that were part of the dinosaurs. • They are the same atoms • Humans atoms are older. ) Both are ageless. • Dinosaurs atoms are older.
Both are ageless
A wave is a periodic vibration in • View Available Hint(S) both space and time • three dimensions • time space
Both space and time
Electric charge can be transferred from one conducting body to another • View Available Hint(s) • by both contact and closeness • only by contact • by no means, for charge is conserved • only by closeness without touching
By both contact bank and closeness
The inside surface of a glass window becomes wet when the temperature outside is • View Available Hint(S) warmer colder either warmer or colder almost exactly the same as on the inside
Colder
The mass of an atom is • mostly electrons • very, very small concentrated in the atomic nucleus • impossible to calculate
Concentrated in the atomic nucleus
pressure increases on a block resting on a table when you increase the downward force and surface area downward force on the block surface area density of the block
Downward force on the block
Earth's gravitational field is strongest at Earth's surface • Earth's center • either the Earth's center or at its surface infinity, in principle
Earths surface
What type of field or fields surround a moving electron? • View Available Hint(S) • Electric field only Electric field and magnetic field • Magnetic field only • No fields surround the charge
Electric field and magnetic field
The source of a magnetic field is a moving • View Available Hint(s) • magnetic north pole only O magnetic north or south pole • magnetic south pole only electron
Electron
Kepler was the first to be credited for discovering that planets follow • parabolas curved paths I circular paths elliptical paths
Elliptical paths
What travels in a wave from one location to another is • View Available Hint(S) O wavelength • amplitude • frequency energy
Energy
Evaporation is a change of phase from gas to liquid • from solid or liquid to gas • without energy transfer • from liquid to gas
From liquid to gas
Water pressure in a lake is • the same at any point greater at the surface greater at the bottom greater midway to the bottom
Greater at the bottom
An important feature of atoms is that they have wave properties can barely be seen with the naked eye make up electric beams are actually tiny solar systems
Have wave properties
The relation /~ Ttells us that high temperature sources emit electromagnetic waves of. • View Available Hint(s) long wavelengths high frequency • high penetrating power O low frequency
Hugh frequency
The purpose of a pressure cooker is to increase the boiling temperature O quicken heating lengthen the time of cooking • lessen pressure while cooking
Increase the boiling temperature
A gas will become plasma when it. • View Available Hint(s) • fluoresces O is fused O is cooled • is electrically charged
Is electrically charged
The rotational speed of every point of a rotating rigid object • is zero • is tangent to the circular motion • depends on the distance to the axis of rotation . is the same
Is the same
A loaded ship arrives at the first freshwater lock of the Panama Canal, will it float higher or lower than in the open oceans It will float lower. • I need to know the weight of the ship to answer. • It will float at the same level. • It will float higher.
It'll flow lower
Hot sand cools off faster at night than plants and vegetation. This indicates that the specific heat capacity for sand is • View Available Hint(s) • likely the same as that of plants unrelated to the rate of cooling • less than that of plants more than that of plants
Less than that of plants
An object having the same density as water will sink in water • float on water • displace less weight in water than it weighs neither sink nor float in water
Neither sink nor float
The vibrations along a transverse wave move in a direction perpendicular to the wave • both along with and perpendicular to the wave neither along with nor perpendicular to the wave along the wave
Perpendicular to the wave
The work done to separate opposite charges results in different values of energy per charge. What is this difference called? • Resistance • Potential difference or voltage • Force • Current
Potential difference or voltage
Boiling can occur in cold water when sub-zero temperatures are achieved pressure is sufficiently lowered • pressure is sufficiently increased concentration and physics come together
Pressure is sufficiently lowered
Heat travels from the Sun to Earth by the process of • View Available Hint(s) convection conduction and convection, though radiation is greater radiation O conduction
Radiation
Solar power is the rate at which • View Available Hint(s) • radiant energy is radiated by Earth radiation attenuates in the atmosphere solar cells convert sunlight into electricity • solar energy is received from the Sun
Solar energy is received from the sun
Kepler discovered that a planet moving in an elliptical orbit will move with the same acceleration cover equal distances sweep equal areas of space move with the same velocity
Sweep equal areas of space
What happens to the force between two charges if they are moved to three times the distance? • View Available Hint(S) © The force decreases nine times. • The force decreases three times. • The force increases nine times. • The force increases three times.
The force decreases nine times
Compared to hydrogen (atomic number 1), the helium atom (atomic number 2) has double the positive charge in the nucleus. How do you compare their relative sizes? • We don't know anything about their sizes. • The helium atom is smaller than the hydrogen atom. • They have the same size. • The hydrogen atom is smaller than the helium atom.
The helium atom is smaller than the hydrogen atom
The magnitudes of the energy changes during evaporation and condensation are • View Available Hint(S) the same • different O zero not related
The same
Two isolated charges repel each other when approached. What can we say about these charges? • View Available Hints) • One has no charge. • They have different types of charge. • One has more charge than the other. • They have the same type of charge.
They have the same type of charge
When we say charge is conserved, we mainly mean that charge can be • View Available Hint(s) • transferred without loss like money in a bank constant in all bodies saved, like money in a bank created and destroyed in equal amounts
Transferred without loss like money in the bank
What Newton discovered most about gravity is that it is • the strongest of known forces ever present universal another rule of nature, though an important one
Universal
Atoms in a crystalline state or in an amorphous state are. flowing • in random positions in fixed positions vibrating about their own positions
Vibrating about their own positions
Atmospheric pressure is mainly due to the • View Available Hint(s) weight of air average temperature of air air pressure against Earth's surface motion of air molecules
Weight of air
Most atoms normally have a net charge that is • View Available Hint(s) • zero • negative O positive • positive in the nucleus and slightly more negative in its electrons
Zero
Consider someone in a rotating space habitat. Rotational motion provides a fictitious force an inertial force a support force gravity
a support force
ectromagnetic waves are composed of • View Available Hint(S) • light waves perpendicular longitudinal waves • electric and magnetic fields vibrating light vectors vibrating light vectors
electric and magnetic fields
The force that acts on a current-carrying wire placed in a magnetic field is • View Available Hint(s) parallel in direction to the magnetic field perpendicular or parallel depending on the orientation of the field • perpendicular in direction to the magnetic field 0 opposite in direction to the magnetic field
perpendicular in direction to the magnetic field
The statement "boiling is a cooling process" means when a liquid is boiling, it cools as fast as it warms O when a liquid is boiling, its temperature at the bottom is dropping when a liquid is boiling, its temperature is dropping • when a liquid is boiling, its temperature below surface is dropping
when a liquid is boiling, it cools as fast as it warms
Electromagnetic induction occurs in a loop of wire • View Available Hint(s) when there is relative motion of the loop and wire or when current changes in the loop when near a magneto • only when the loop moves near a magnet • only when a magnet moves near the loop • only when current changes in a loop near a magnet
when there is relative motion of the loop and wire or when current changes in the loop when near a magnet
How is radiant energy absorbed and emitted (as stated in Planck hypothesis)? • View Available Hint(s) • In random quantities • In discrete bundles or quanta • In a continuous flow With different values
• In discrete bundles or quanta
The buoyant force on a floating object is • less than the object's weight equal to the obiect's volume equal to the object's weight O more than the buoyant force than if submerged
Equal to the objects weight
Maxwell's counterpart to Faraday's law emphasizes electric and magnetic • View Available Hint(s) • forces O light • fields • energy
Fields
A scuba diver is planning to dive to the same depth in the open ocean and in a deep lake. Considering that salt water is denser that fresh water, where would the diver feel more pressure? In the ocean • We need to know the depth of the diver to answer this question. In the lake • Same in both
In the ocean
Rotational inertia of an object rotating about an axis becomes greater with A. increased mass B. decreased mass C. decreased mass and decreased distance to mass concentration D. increased mass and increased distance to mass concentration
Increased mass and increased distnace to mass concentration "D"
The horizontal and vertical components of velocity for a projectile are independent of each other dependent on each other • parts of a parabola • equal for angles greater than 45°
Independent of each other
The force that acts on an electron traveling in a magnetic field is • View Available Hint(s) opposite in direction to the magnetic field perpendicular or parallel depending on the orientation of the field O parallel in direction to the magnetic field • perpendicular in direction to the magnetic field
• perpendicular in direction to the magnetic field