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DSST Physical Sciences2

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






2. What is the spin projection quantum number?






3. Nuclear masses can be approximated from what?

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






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






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






7. Always remember that velocity has ____ and ____






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

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9. Why is it important that the materials used as scintillators are nearly transparent to the wavelength of light they emit?






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






11. 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?






12. If you are given a table of substances and are told to find which two show effect of molecular weight on melting point alone - which two substances should you look for?






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






14. 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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15. What is the angular momentum quantum number (l)? It is the same as what? What does an S orbital appear to look like? What would it's (l) be?






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






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






18. What is the equation for a period (T)? What is the equation for angular velocity?






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






20. What do electrolytic techniques involve?






21. What is the equation for bouyant force? What is p?






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






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






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






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






26. Friction is caused by what?






27. 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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28. Strength of dispersion force increases with what?






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






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






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






32. Terminal voltage is provided to what?






33. What is the relationship between P and n in PV=nRT?






34. The force on an electrical charge is what?






35. How do you figure out the literature Ksp value of a compound?






36. In a healthy person standing at rest - a comparison of arterial blood pressure measured in the arm with that in the leg - shows what about the differences between these pressures?






37. How many mL is in one liter?






38. What is the equation for pressure?






39. A plane mirror produces an image where?






40. What if the circuit elements are in series?






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






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






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






44. Neither N2 or O2 have a permanent what? What does this mean?






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






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






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






48. When is a body in translational equilibrium?






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






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