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DSST Physical Sciences2

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1. Can a catalyst shift equilibrium?






2. In a rxn - how do you figure out which atom has the highest electron affinity?






3. How many mL is in one liter?






4. Regarding M(OH)2 and you have solubility (S) - what would the Ksp be?






5. What is different between an inclined plane and free fall?






6. When something is falling what is the force acting on it? Thus what would be the work done?

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7. Friction is caused by what?






8. What is the equation for work done?






9. 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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10. A plane mirror produces an image where?






11. What is usually conserved over oscillation periods?






12. When looking at which combo of acids and bases will result in a solution with pH of 7 what do we look for?






13. At the moment of explosion of an object - what is its momementum? Why? After an explosion what is the total momentum carried by all the fragments?






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






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

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16. What would the force be of a block on a pulley? What would be its displacement?

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17. In general what is formed by an acid-base rxn?






18. How do you find what is the limiting reagent? You can then use the moles of the limiting reagent to calculate what?






19. What does the empirical formula show?






20. What is sublimation?






21. Why does light travel slower in an optically dense medium than through a vacuum?






22. What happens if an atom undergoes positron decay or electron capture?






23. Pressure in a liquid is proportional to what? So why does this explain why blood pressure is greater in legs?






24. Heat from friction comes from what?






25. What gas is evolved when copper is placed in a nitric acid (HNO3) solution? This is what type of rxn?






26. In order to guarantee a non-zero spin how many electrons are needed?






27. So if you have a voltage of 1/4V it will be reduced by what? Thus what will be the equation for the terminal voltage?






28. Equivalent mass is what?






29. Does the temperature of a water bath or amount of water in a water bath determines if a substance melts?






30. An alpha particle can also be assumed to be what element? What is the mass number of Helium?






31. The probability of an X-ray emission event at a given wavelength is measured by what?






32. Young's modulus is a ________ for a material. What is it's ratio? What would a graph of it look like?






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






34. What are the units of an electric field?






35. If asked which electron configuration of an element is most stable which one do you choose?






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

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37. When does red litmus paper turn blue?






38. The concentration of OH and H30 ions are approximately equal at what pH?






39. What is the doppler equation for wavelength and frequency?






40. Why would a solution with unfilled orbitals be responsible for turning a solution a certian color?






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






42. The electrical force on a particle depends on what?

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43. What energy conversion describes best what takes place in a battery-powered resistive circuit?






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






45. What direction do gravity and bouyancy work? What direction does water pressure work?






46. Hydrogen has what kind of standard oxidation or reduction potential?






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






48. How do you find specific gravity of an object?






49. The visible spectrum ranges from ____ to _____






50. What does spatial resolution refer to?