Physics

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PHY 113: Calculus-based Physics II – Quiz 6

Mechanical Universe Video

Fall 2017

This quiz is open book and open notes but is designed to follow along with the Mechanical

Universe Video “Temperature and The Gas Law”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZdUKMDfJ_o&list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5G0dk-

XGtA5cZ&index=45). Put all answers in the space provided. This will be due at the beginning

of our next class meeting.

1. What happens to the table when Dr. Goodstein drops the block on it?

2. What is temperature measured in terms of and what is needed to measure temperature

effectively?

3. What temperature does water freeze at and boil for both scales used in the video?

4. What is responsible for holding the piston up in the computer simulation?

5. What is heat?

6. What is the equation for pressure?

7. Who was accused of “putting to too much physics into his chemistry”?

8. What is Boyle’s Law?

9. What is the lowest possible temperature and what does it mean to be at this temperature?

10. On the Kelvin scale what is temperature proportional to?

11. What gives a gas its pressure and volume?

13. What is the relationship between temperature and heat?

14. What does the ideal gas law describe?

15. What station is the radio tuned to?

16. Explain how the Fahrenheit scale was created.