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DSST Physical Sciences2

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1. When does red litmus paper turn blue?






2. What is the magnetic quantum number?






3. Acetic acid is a ______ solvent






4. The freezing point of an aqueous solution is what kind of property? What does this mean?






5. Can a charged particle be detected by two anodes?

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6. What are the three separate module for tensile stress - shear stress - and compression/expansion?

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7. How do you find 'g' from Newton's law of gravity?






8. What does specific heat of a substance tell you? Thus what does a higher specific heat tell you?






9. If the source of sound and the listener are traveling side by side at the same speed - what will the change in freq heard by the listener be?






10. In Bohr model of atom when is energy emitted?






11. The square root of 10^anything is equal to what?






12. The equivalence pt is what part of the titration curve? Thus looking at the range of change between the pH values along this part of the graph can tell you what?

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13. How do the final velocities differ if a sphere is dropped from a distance rather than rolled down an inclined plane?






14. What happens to the atomic number and atomic mass of an element that go under Beta decay or positron emission?






15. Melting occurs at what type of temperature? Why?






16. How do you find wavelength if you known distance from adjacent crests and troughs?






17. Isotopes have diff number of ______ but same what?






18. Mechanical waves in a medium fxn to transport what?






19. What is the law of conservation of linear momentum?






20. The Ksp for a substance of AaBb is what?






21. An oxidation-reduction rxn that occurs spontaneously has what kind of E^o for the cell?






22. What is one faraday equal to?






23. The closer the spacing of the anode wire - the better one can specify what?






24. Charged particles in motion constitute what? Freely moving charges are deflected by what? The curved path depends on what?






25. A saturated solution of KNO3 means what? If you add salt that has any of these two ions what will happen? What is this called?






26. Can a catalyst shift equilibrium?






27. Half-sine wave shape is what kind of wavelength with regards to length?






28. When a falling mass is at terminal speed - what is the power expended by the air resistance?






29. What is the equation for pressure?






30. The electrons emitted from cathode are replaced with what?






31. What is weight equal to?






32. In radioactive decay the atomic number (A) and mass number (Z) must what?






33. As a balloon rises in a tank of water what happens to the temperature inside it? Why would this happen?






34. F in the Young's modulus equation can also equal what? What is E?

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35. If melting pt of a substance is 80 degrees - then what is the diff in time the substance melts when it is either placed in 100 degree test tube and 90 degree test tube?






36. If you have a decrease of pressure to which side of the equation is it equilibrium shifted towards? What about if you increase temperature?

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37. What happens to a negatively charged particle put between two parallel plates?






38. What is the amt of energy that a frictional force generates?






39. What is Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation?






40. When the source of a sound is flying away from you what happens to the wavelengths from peak to peak?






41. Is the work done by air resistance - positive or negative?






42. The free energy change (G) must be negative when what?






43. For a given flow rate - the speed of fluid flow is inversely proportional to what?






44. The number of incident photons on the cathode affect what?






45. How do you find the equiv capacitance of capacitors in series and parallel? What about if you are trying to find equivalent resistance?






46. What is the net result on a nucleus when you absorb a deuturon and emit a neutron?






47. What is the unit for Young's Modulus?






48. What kind of metals react violently with water?






49. Strength of dispersion force increases with what?






50. Always remember that velocity has ____ and ____