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DSST Physical Sciences2

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






2. 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?






3. What is Avagadro's number regarding ions/mol?






4. What are the units of an electric field?






5. What is the spin projection quantum number?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. When does red litmus paper turn blue?






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






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






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






20. 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?






21. Terminal voltage is provided to what?






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






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






24. What is the equation for pressure?






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. The force on an electrical charge is what?






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






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






34. If you have a decrease of pressure to which side of the equation is it equilibrium shifted towards? What about if you increase temperature?

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35. What do electrolytic techniques involve?






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






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






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






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

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40. What does spatial resolution refer to?






41. In radioactive decay the atomic number (A) and mass number (Z) must what?






42. How do you find 'g' from Newton's law of gravity?






43. What is a metathesis rxn?






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






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






46. Nuclear masses can be approximated from what?

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47. The volume of an object is equal to water?






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






49. The basicity constant Kb measures what?






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