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1
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What principle states that the buoyant force experienced by an object is exactly equal to the weight of the fluid displaced?

A

Archimedes principle

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2
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What is the most important component of a heat pump?

A

refrigerant

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Who first demonstrated the existence of invisible electromagnetic waves?

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Heinrich Hertz

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What is the heat required to change a given mass of a solid into a liquid?

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heat of fusion

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What is the amount of heat needed to change an object’s temperature by a given amount?

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heat capacity

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What law relates an object’s force, mass, and acceleration?

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second law of motion

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What is the process in which colors are produced by interference of reflected light?

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iridescence

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What fundamental force is responsible for elastic potential energy?

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electromagnetic

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What is the process of dissipating the energy of sound waves in matter?

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absorption

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Which law states that if the temperature of a gas remains constant, the volume and pressure are inversely proportional?

A

Boyle’s law

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Which type of wave makes communication possible between ships, airplanes, and cellphones?

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radio waves

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12
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What type of heat transfer occurs when a fan blows air in a room?

A

convection

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What is the apparent slowdown in time for an object traveling at nearly the speed of light?

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time dilation

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When a whetstone is used to sharpen a knife, the stone performs work on the knife to remove excess metal. Water or mineral oil must be applied to the stone; otherwise, the blade will become too hot and warp. What scientific principle explains why the blade gets hot?

A

first law of thermodynamics

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15
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What happens to atmospheric pressure as altitude increases?

A

decreases

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What is the term for a beam of light containing waves that are aligned in the same direction?

A

polarized

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17
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What is the Si base unit for mass?

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kilogram

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18
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What is the product of an object’s mass and velocity?

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momentum

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What form of energy is associated with the position of an object and the forces acting upon it?

A

potential

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What are the additive primary colors?

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red, green, blue

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20
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What is the ability for other scientists to reach the same conclusion by performing the same experiment under different conditions and by performing other experiments to test the same hypothesis?

A

reproducibility

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20
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What are all nonzero digits, all zeros between nonzero digits, and zeros at the end of a number with a decimal point?

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significant digits

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21
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What is the formula for the frequency of a wave?

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frequency= waves/time

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21
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What is the phenomenon in which a liquid in thin tubes rises above or falls beneath its own level?

A

capillarity

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21
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What is considered a mixture of all the colors of light?

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white

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22
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What is the fluid friction that tends to slow an object as it moves through a fluid?

A

drag

23
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What is an excited atom that releases two photons after a collision?

A

stimulated emission

24
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What is the output distance of a screw?

A

pitch

25
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Why is laser light extremely intense compared to normal light?

A

The beam is concentrated narrowly and coherently

26
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The speed of light in a vacuum is always _____, no matter how it is measured.

A

constant

27
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Which of the following is the phenomenon in which light above a certain frequency knocks electrons loose from the atoms of certain metals?

A

photoelectric effect

28
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Which fallacy occurs when a term is misleadingly used with two different meanings in a single argument?

A

equivocation

29
Q

What kind of heat transfer occurs between and hot pad and a casserole dish resting on it?

A

conduction

30
Q

What type of lens curves outward and bends light inward to converge on a point?

A

convex

31
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Which is the collective term for the three colors of pigments that can be combined to make most other colors?

A

subtractive primary colors

32
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What is a triangular glass object that separates light into its component colors through refraction?

A

prism

33
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In which type of wave do particles of the medium oscillate in the direction of wave motion?

A

longitudinal

34
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What is the bending of the path of a wave as as a result of a change in wave speed?

A

refraction

35
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Which type of ultraviolet radiation is mostly, but not completely, blocked by the atmospheric ozone layer?

A

UVB

36
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the strength of a sound wave

A

intensity

37
Q

the number of waves that pass a given point per unit of time

A

frequency

38
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the musical distance between two notes

A

interval

39
Q

the effect of frequency on the way the human ear perceives sound

A

pitch

40
Q

What is the use of lasers to transmit signals through narrow glass cables?

A

fiber optics

41
Q

What is any change in velocity?

A

acceleration

42
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What is a semicircular arc of colored bands of light formed by refraction in falling raindrops?

A

rainbow

43
Q

Light consists of tiny bundles or packets of energy called ______.

A

photons

44
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What occurs when light rays from a distant object pass through heated air and bend in such a way that the object appears nearby?

A

mirage

45
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What is a device designed to measure the heat involved in a physical or chemical change?

A

calorimeter

46
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What is a three-dimensional image produced by laser light?

A

hologram

47
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What is the quantity that measures the amount of disorder in a system?

A

entropy

48
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What is the general term for waves consisting of two transverse waves oscillating at right angles to each other?

A

electromagnetic waves

49
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What is the frequency just higher than ultraviolet rays?

A

x-rays

50
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What are the most energetic light waves, capable of penetrating all substances?

A

gamma rays

51
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What are light waves that have frequencies between microwaves and red visible light?

A

infrared rays

52
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What is the ability of a gas to be easily squeezed and compacted into smaller containers?

A

compressibility

53
Q

A mirror with the reflecting surface on the inside of a spherical surface is a ______ mirror.

A

concave

54
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Each of the dark fringes formed as light interferes destructively from a narrow slit is a _______.

A

node

55
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What is the process of a gas changing into a liquid?

A

condensation

56
Q

What is the transfer of heat without matter?

A

radiation

57
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The idea that gravity is a result of the geometry of space is part of the ______ theory of relativity.

A

general

58
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Momentum is proportional to the velocity, but _____ energy is proportional to the square of velocity.

A

kinetic

59
Q

Collision of particles ______ at higher temperatures.

A

increases

60
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Lens that curves outward to focus the sunlight to a point and can help start a campfire.

A

convex

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