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DSST Physical Sciences2

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






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






3. What is weight equal to?






4. 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?






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






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






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

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8. The range of pH in which a color change takes place in a titration depends on what?






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






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






11. A plane mirror produces an image where?






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






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






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






15. Friction is caused by what?






16. The number of incident photons on the cathode affect what?






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






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






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






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






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






22. Nuclear masses can be approximated from what?

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

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






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






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






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






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






29. What do electrolytic techniques involve?






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






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






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

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33. Terminal voltage is provided to what?






34. A pendulum moves under the influence of what?






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






36. What is the magnetic quantum number?






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






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






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






40. What color is above 656 nm?






41. Mechanical waves in a medium fxn to transport what?






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






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






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






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






46. Isotopes have diff number of ______ but same what?






47. What is one faraday equal to?






48. 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?






49. What kind of geometry is octahedral?






50. 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?