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DSST Physical Sciences2

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






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






3. What is one faraday equal to?






4. When the source of a sound is flying away from you what happens to the wavelengths from peak to peak?






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






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

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

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8. What is newton's second law?






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






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

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11. A saturated solution of KNO3 means what? If you add salt that has any of these two ions what will happen? What is this called?






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






13. Can a catalyst shift equilibrium?






14. What happens to the atomic number and atomic mass of an element that go under Beta decay or positron emission?






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






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






17. 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?






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






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






20. Kb is the equilibrium constant for what?






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






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






23. What is sublimation?






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






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






26. What kind of charge is on Al?






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






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






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






30. 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?






31. A pendulum moves under the influence of what?






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






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






34. The basicity constant Kb measures what?






35. 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?






36. How do you find wavelength if you known distance from adjacent crests and troughs?






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






38. Friction is caused by what?






39. Beta decay is the same as what?






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






41. If any species is gotten rid of when combining two equations of chemical rxns together what can you conclude about those species?






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






43. Equivalent mass is what?






44. 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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45. What is the doppler equation for wavelength and frequency?






46. What does spatial resolution refer to?






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






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






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






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