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DSST Physical Sciences2

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1. 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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2. What is usually conserved over oscillation periods?






3. Friction is caused by what?






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






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






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






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






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

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






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






11. Terminal voltage is provided to what?






12. A nearsighted person has what type of focal length? Thus what do we do to correct this?






13. The total pressure of a solution is what? Give example.






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






15. if lead is successively preciptated as PbSO4 - PbI - and PbCO2 - which is less soluble than which? Thus which anions will be precipitated first?






16. The coefficient of static friction is the ratio of what?






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






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






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






20. The visible spectrum ranges from ____ to _____






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






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






23. What does spatial resolution refer to?






24. 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?






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






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






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






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






29. If both weight and bouyant force are dependent on g - that makes g independent of what?






30. The boiling point of a solution is what type of property? Which means is depends only on what?






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






32. When is a body in translational equilibrium?






33. What is conserved in an inellastic collision?






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






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






36. What do electrolytic techniques involve?






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






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






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






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






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

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42. What is the principal quantum number (n)?






43. What is the equation for pressure?






44. Beta decay is the emission of what? How do you know what it is the emission of?






45. Why are bonds between H and another atom shorter compared to most?






46. So if you are given an equation and it gives you the E^o for both side equations seen in the big equation - what do you do with them?






47. What does the empirical formula show?






48. What kind of geometry is octahedral?






49. 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?






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

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