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Question 1         

An object moving in a circle at constant speed is accelerated

Question 2

A bullet is fired upward. As it rises,

Question 3

The radius of the path of an object moving in a circle at constant speed is halved. If the speed remains the same, the centripetal force needed is

Question 4

If the moon were half as far from the earth as it is now, the gravitational force it exerts on the earth would be

Question 5

Relative to what she weighs on the earth, an astronaut visiting another planet

Question 6

A moose weighing 3 kN is standing still. The force the ground exerts on the moose is

Question 7

A snail travels 45 cm in 20 min. Its average speed is

Question 8

Which of the following units could be associated with a vector quantity?

Question 9

Of the following, a molecule is best described as

Question 10

The properties of several different materials are being compared. If the samples all have the same volume, the one with the greatest mass also has the greatest

Question 11

Which of the following is not true of molecular motion in a gas?

Question 12

The circulation of hot air in a room is an example of transfer of heat by

Question 13

When heat is added to a body of matter, the resulting temperature increase does not depend upon

Question 14

The pressure at the bottom of a barrel filled with liquid does not depend on the

Question 15

The temperature of a gas sample in a rigid container is reduced. The pressure the gas exerts on the container walls decreases because

Question 16

Ice floats in water because

Question 17

The concept that gravitation is a distortion of space-time is part of

Question 18

Which of the following quantities is always the same to all observers?

Question 19

The angular momentum of spinning object depends, in part, on its mass and how fast it is spinning.  Consider the following situation:  a skater spins slowly on one skate, with her arms and the other leg extended.  As she pulls in her arms and extended leg, she spins faster.  This is because

Question 20

The linear momentum of a 400-kg giraffe galloping at 5 m/s is

Question 21

An object that has linear momentum must also have

Question 22

The watt is a unit of

Question 23

What never changes when two or more objects collide is

Question 24

On a molecular level heat is

Question 25

The current with which a transformer is used

Question 26

Coulomb's formula F = KQ1Q2/R2 gives the force between two charges in free space. The value of K

Question 27

Which of the following statements is not true?

Question 28

A negative electric charge

Question 29

An object has a positive electric charge whenever

Question 30

A drawing of the field lines of a magnetic field provides information on

Question 31

The relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in a metallic wire:

Question 32

When an observer moves past a stationary electric charge, she detects

Question 33

When first proposed, a scientific idea is usually called a

Question 34

The period of the earth's orbit around the sun is

Question 35

If the earth had no moon,

Question 36

Stars and planets are round because

Question 37

The scientist who showed that gravity accounts for Kepler's laws of planetary motion was

Question 38

What distinguishes the scientific method from other ways of looking at the natural world is

Question 39

Scientific theories

Question 40

In which one or more of the following is the earth assumed to be the center of the universe?