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






3. What is the magnitude of the electric field produced by a point charge?






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






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






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






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






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






9. If you have circuit elements in parallel what is the same across them?






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






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






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

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

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






15. The phase difference corresponding to a half wave is what? When do you get destructive interference?






16. How do you balance redox rxns?

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17. 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?






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






19. What is usually conserved over oscillation periods?






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

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






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






23. When you are trying to find the buyoancy force of water on a lead object what density do you use in the equation B = pVg? what volume?






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. A pendulum moves under the influence of what?






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






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

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






29. What is one faraday equal to?






30. If temperature arises during a mixture what can you conclude about the enthalpy?






31. What are the units of an electric field?






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






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






34. If the standard potential for a rxn is negative when it is being reduced (thus a negative reduction potential) that means that the resulting atom has what?






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






36. The visible spectrum ranges from ____ to _____






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






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






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






40. What does spatial resolution refer to?






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






42. What is weight equal to?






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






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






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






46. The coefficient of kinetic friction is always lower than what? Therefore what?






47. 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?






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






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






50. If you are told to find the maximum number of NiCo3 that can form how do you do that?

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