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DSST Physical Sciences2

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1. 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?






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






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






4. The electrons emitted from cathode are replaced with what?






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






6. What does the empirical formula show?






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






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

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






10. 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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11. What kind of geometry is octahedral?






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






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

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14. The force on an electrical charge is what?






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






16. What kind of charge is on Al?






17. What happens to a negatively charged particle put between two parallel plates?






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






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






20. What is the formula for the power supplied by a battery to accelerate an electron beam?






21. The freezing point of an aqueous solution is what kind of property? What does this mean?






22. In PV=nRT - if temp increases what will happen to volume?






23. 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?






24. What is the equation for work done?






25. 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?






26. Why does light travel slower in an optically dense medium than through a vacuum?






27. What color is above 656 nm?






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






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






30. Can a catalyst shift equilibrium?






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






32. Acetic acid is a ______ solvent






33. Beta decay is the same as what?






34. If you are given density and volume how do you find mass?






35. Strength of dispersion force increases with what?






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






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






38. The basicity constant Kb measures what?






39. Neither N2 or O2 have a permanent what? What does this mean?






40. What is the magnetic quantum number?






41. Terminal voltage is provided to what?






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






43. What is sublimation?






44. If you have longer wavelengths how is their freq and energy compared to shorter wavelengths?






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






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






47. What is conserved in an inellastic collision?






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






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






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?