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DSST Physical Sciences2

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






2. Strength of dispersion force increases with what?






3. What is the equation for work done?






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

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5. What is the equation for pressure?






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






7. When does red litmus paper turn blue?






8. 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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9. Friction is caused by what?






10. What do electrolytic techniques involve?






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






12. When an element decreases its atomic number by one what is emitted?






13. The visible spectrum ranges from ____ to _____






14. If something is very toxic to a human - what Ksp value should it have for it to be the safest?






15. When you are trying to calculate a galvanic cell's emf - what do you look at?






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






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






18. A floating ice cube implies that it's weight is balanced by what?






19. 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?






20. The temperature of a metal will not increase above its melting point until what?






21. 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?






22. Acetic acid is a ______ solvent






23. How many mL is in one liter?






24. Kb is the equilibrium constant for what?






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






26. What does spatial resolution refer to?






27. What is a metathesis rxn?






28. What is newton's second law?






29. In order to increase the kinetic energy of electrons - they must be what?






30. If you have an alcohol with OH on the end and then another cmpd with an O in the middle but no H - what is different between the bonds they can make with water?

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31. Light can be carried along a distance within a transparent material by means of what?






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






33. What is the magnetic quantum number?






34. Considering the answer in the last slide - what kind of a solution would have a lower freezing pt?






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






36. How should the period of a waveform be calculated?






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






38. What is the hybridization of oxygen in water and other oxygens similar to water with two bonds and two lone pairs of electrons?






39. In a galvanic and electrolytic cell - reduction of an ion occurs where? Oxidation of an ion occurs where?






40. The basicity constant Kb measures what?






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






42. If you are given density and volume how do you find mass?






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






44. 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?






45. A cmpd with the lowest carbon to oxygen ratio will require how much oxygen for combustion?






46. If you have longer wavelengths how is their freq and energy compared to shorter wavelengths?






47. What type of acid and base would produce a pH closest to 7?






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






49. What is the formula for the power supplied by a battery to accelerate an electron beam?






50. 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?