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DSST Physical Sciences2

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1. 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?






2. Strength of dispersion force increases with what?






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






4. If the equation says that the E^o has (-) voltage when being reduced - but it is being oxidized in the problem - what does the voltage then become?






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






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






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






8. What are the three separate module for tensile stress - shear stress - and compression/expansion?

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

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






11. 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?






12. When does red litmus paper turn blue?






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






14. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. What is the spin projection quantum number?






27. Kb is the equilibrium constant for what?






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






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






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






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






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






33. Friction is caused by what?






34. The visible spectrum ranges from ____ to _____






35. What is the magnetic quantum number?






36. What is the net result on a nucleus when you absorb a deuturon and emit a neutron?






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

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






39. The basicity constant Kb measures what?






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






41. What is a metathesis rxn?






42. Beta decay is the same as what?






43. 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?






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






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






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






47. When is a body in translational equilibrium?






48. How do you find length of time something is in flight? How do you find distance it traveled?






49. How do you find specific gravity of an object?






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