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25 Questions

1. The pressure in a liquid depends on liquid?

2. Your pet hamster sits on a record player whose angular speed is constant. If he moves to a point twice as far from the center, then his linear speed?

3. When you buy a water pipe in a hardware store, the water isn't included. When you buy copper wire, electrons?

4. Angular momentum

5. If the mass of one planet is somehow doubled, the force of gravity between it and a neighboring planet?

6. The major difference between a motor and generator is?

7. If the masses of two planets are each somehow doubled, the force of gravity between them

8. A piston in an airtight pump is withdrawn so that the volume of the air chamber is increased 3 times. What is the change in pressure?

9. When a car is struck by lightning, the resulting electric field inside the car is?

10. The purpose of a transformer is to transform?

11. A soccer player kicks a ball with 1500 N of force. The ball exerts a reaction force against the player's foot of.

12. Suppose by pulling the weights in, if the rotational inertia of the man decreases to half of his initial rotational inertia, by what factor would his angular velocity change?

13. A strong magnet lifts a paper clip. Compared with the force the magnet exerts on the clip, the force the clip exerts on the magnet is

14. A standing wave is produced by reflected waves undergoing?

15. Nellie runs the length of a 100-yard football field in a time of 20 seconds. Her average running speed is

16. Unlike Newton's law of gravity, Coulomb's law involves?

17. The essential physics concept in an electric generator is?

18. You are riding in a van at a steady speed and toss a coin up. Where will the coin land?

19. If a 50-N person is to fall at terminal speed, the air resistance needed is.

20. When you toss a projectile sideways, it curves as it falls. It will be an Earth satellite if the curve it makes?

21. If you dip your finger repeatedly onto the surface of still water, you produce waves. The more frequently you dip your finger, the?

22. The change in potential energy of a charged object depends on

23. Consider a car colliding head-on with an innocent bug. The force of impact splatters the unfortunate bug over the windshield. Which is greater, the force on the bug or the force on the car?

24. A bar magnet that holds a chain of paper clips illustrates?

25. According to Coulomb's law, a pair of particles that are placed twice as far apart will experience forces that are?