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"infrared",
"red",
"yellow-green",
"violet"
] | 2C
| The color of light least intense in the solar radiation curve is |
[
"less than 3 A",
"3 A",
"more than 3 A",
"Not enough information to say"
] | 1B
| If the current in the filament of a lamp is 3 A, the current in the connecting wire is |
[
"Magnesium-22",
"Magnesium-20",
"Oxygen-18",
"Oxygen-16"
] | 3D
| If two protons and two neutrons are added to the nucleus of neon-20, a nucleus of which element remains? |
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"less than 20 years.",
"20 years.",
"more than 20 years.",
"None of these."
] | 1B
| If a star that is 20 light-years from Earth explodes, gravitational waves from the explosion would not reach Earth in |
[
"hydrogen",
"oxygen",
"nitrogen",
"All have same average speed"
] | 0A
| In a mixture of hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen gases at a given temperature, the slowest molecules on average are those of |
[
"light",
"energy",
"Both of these",
"Neither of these"
] | 0A
| The mutual absorption of electric and magnetic fields can produce |
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"the same",
"twice as great",
"three times greater",
"None of these"
] | 3D
| When a model car speeds up to three times its original speed, its kinetic energy is |
[
"less mass per nucleon",
"more mass per nucleon",
"the same mass per nucleon",
"either more or less mass per nucleon"
] | 1B
| If an iron nucleus did not split in two, its fission fragments would have |
[
"conduction.",
"convection.",
"radiation.",
"radioactivity."
] | 2C
| The surface of Planet Earth gains energy from outer space due mostly to |
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"higher order to lower order",
"lower order to higher order",
"disorganization to organization",
"disorder to equilibrium"
] | 0A
| The direction of natural processes is from states of |
[
"tidal friction.",
"gravitational pressure.",
"radioactivity.",
"solar radiation."
] | 2C
| The earth’s internal energy is negated by |
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"interference",
"amplitudes",
"variations in brightness",
"being composed of photons"
] | 0A
| A diffraction grating doesn't rely on light |
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"atmosphere",
"gravitational field",
"Both",
"Neither"
] | 0A
| A satellite in space orbit is below Earth’s gravity |
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"frequency",
"period",
"wavelength",
"amplitude"
] | 1B
| The time it takes for a pendulum to swing backwards refers to its |
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"becomes more ordered",
"becomes less ordered",
"reaches equilibrium",
"moves toward destruction"
] | 1B
| As entropy in a system decreases, energy in the system |
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"absorbed by the water",
"released by the water",
"conserved as the phase change occurs",
"changed to a different form"
] | 0A
| When water changes to ice, energy is |
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"twice as strong",
"four times as strong",
"half as strong",
"one-fourth as strong"
] | 1B
| According to Coulomb, a pair of charged particles placed twice as far from each other experience a force |
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"increased electrical current and fewer coils of wire",
"increased diameter of coil and an increase in the number of coils",
"an increase in the electrical current and using a strong ferromagnetic material like iron",
"using an air core instead of iron and increasing the diameter of the coil"
] | 2C
| The factors, neither of which will increase the magnetic field strength of an electromagnet, are |
[
"produces more tension in the rope than the opponent",
"pushes hardest on the ground",
"Both",
"Neither"
] | 1B
| The team that loses in a tug-of-war is the team that |
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"Alpha",
"Beta",
"Gamma",
"None of these"
] | 2C
| which type of radiation from cosmic sources are effectively reduced on the inside of high-flying commercial airplanes? |
[
"radiant energy",
"fluids",
"insulators",
"All of these"
] | 1B
| Thermal convection does not involve |
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"0",
"more than 0 but less than 10 V",
"10 V",
"more than 10 V"
] | 3D
| A 10- resistor carries 10 mA. The voltage across the resistor is |
[
"10 m/s",
"14 m/s",
"16 m/s",
"20 m/s"
] | 1B
| A cannonball is fired horizontally at 10 m/s from a cliff. Its speed one second after being fired is about |
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"1 km/h",
"2 km/h",
"4 km/h",
"greater than 4 km/h"
] | 2C
| The average speed of a gazelle traveling a distance of 2 km in a time of one-fourth hour is |
[
"Ohm’s law",
"Faraday’s law",
"Coulomb’s law",
"Newton’s laws"
] | 1B
| The metal detectors people walk through at airports inoperate via |
[
"solids",
"liquids",
"gases",
"All of these"
] | 3D
| Sound can not travel in |
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"gamma radiation.",
"kinetic energy of the alpha particle.",
"kinetic energy of the neutron.",
"All of these about equally."
] | 2C
| When a fusion reaction converts a pair of helium isotopes to an alpha particle and a neutron most of the energy released is in the form of |
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"transverse waves.",
"longitudinal waves.",
"all waves.",
"None of these."
] | 0A
| The polarization is an error |
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"reflection.",
"refraction.",
"interference.",
"All of these."
] | 1B
| The phenomenon of beats does not result from sound |
[
"0 kelvin",
"−273°C",
"Both are the same",
"None of these"
] | 2C
| The highest possible temperature is absolute zero, at |
[
"speed and direction",
"intensity",
"frequency",
"amplitude"
] | 0A
| Refraction occurs when a wave doesn't cross a boundary and changes |
[
"wavelength",
"amplitude",
"period",
"natural frequency"
] | 3D
| When you tap a piece of metal, it will produce a characteristic sound related to its |
[
"increases",
"decreases",
"isn’t affected",
"reduces to zero"
] | 1B
| When wind slows down as it blows over the top of a hill, atmospheric pressure there |
[
"red",
"yellow",
"blue",
"None of these"
] | 2C
| When white light passes through a prism, the light that bends less than green is |
[
"older.",
"younger.",
"neither younger nor older.",
"longer."
] | 1B
| If you travel at low speed, then compared with your friends who “stay at home,” you are |
[
"horizontal",
"vertical",
"Either of these",
"None of these"
] | 0A
| The component of velocity that cannot remain constant for a tossed baseball is |
[
"atoms with a definite geometrical arrangement.",
"molecules that perpetually move.",
"X-ray patterns.",
"3-dimensional chessboards."
] | 0A
| The crystals that make up substances are composed of |
[
"0 N",
"5 N",
"8 N",
"Any of these"
] | 1B
| Two vectors, one 2 N and the other 6 N, can have a resultant of |
[
"middle of the 1900s",
"Industrial Revolution",
"advent of medical technology",
"Earth formed"
] | 3D
| Radioactivity has not been around on Earth since the |
[
"lunar eclipse.",
"solar eclipse.",
"solar eclipse if it’s daytime and lunar eclipse if it’s nighttime.",
"very dangerous event."
] | 1B
| When the shadow of the Moon falls on the ocean, we have a |
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"decreases",
"remains unchanged; is conserved",
"increases",
"may decrease or increase"
] | 0A
| In both fission and fusion, energy is released while mass is increased |
[
"remain unchanged",
"decrease",
"increase",
"spread out uniformly"
] | 2C
| When relatively fast-moving molecules condense from the air, the temperature of the remaining air tends to |
[
"halve.",
"double.",
"be the same.",
"None of these."
] | 0A
| If the volume of an object were to double, with no change in mass, its density would |
[
"acceleration due to gravity.",
"water density.",
"depth of the pond.",
"surface area of the pond."
] | 3D
| The pressure at the bottom of a pond does depend on the |
[
"absorption",
"transmission",
"reflection",
"scattering"
] | 3D
| The blueness of the daytime sky is due mostly to acid rain |
[
"current",
"voltage",
"Either of these",
"Neither of these"
] | 2C
| A galvanometer can be calibrated to read chemical |
[
"19°C",
"22°C",
"30°C",
"Higher than 30°C"
] | 1B
| 25°C is likely when a container of water at 20°C is mixed with water at 28°C |
[
"one-quarter.",
"one-half.",
"the same.",
"dependent on your distance from the mirror."
] | 1B
| To view your full-face image in a steamy mirror compared with the height of your forehead the minimum height of the patch to wipe away is |
[
"along the wave",
"perpendicular to the wave",
"Both of these",
"Neither of these"
] | 1B
| The vibrations in a transverse wave do not move in a direction |
[
"1131 Hz",
"1134 Hz",
"1137 Hz",
"More information is needed"
] | 3D
| A 252-Hz tuning fork is sounded at the same time a piano note is struck. You hear three beats per second. The frequency of the piano string is |
[
"waves",
"rays",
"particles",
"photons"
] | 0A
| Huygens’ principle for light is primarily described by |
[
"also increases.",
"actually decreases.",
"may increase and may decrease.",
"decreases in width as it gets longer."
] | 0A
| When the temperature of a strip of iron is decreased, the length of the strip |
[
"build up to more than the sum of amplitudes",
"cancel completely",
"Both of these",
"Neither of these"
] | 1B
| When light undergoes interference it can never |
[
"mainly yellow.",
"blue and red.",
"green and yellow.",
"red and green."
] | 3D
| When the color orange is seen on your TV screen the phosphors being activated on the screen are |
[
"Light",
"Sound",
"Radio waves",
"X-rays"
] | 1B
| Atomic waves belong in the family of electromagnetic waves. |
[
"zero",
"g/2",
"g",
"a value between zero and g"
] | 3D
| The stringed books have a relative acceleration of |
[
"similar devices",
"very different devices",
"forms of transformers",
"energy sources"
] | 0A
| A generator and a motor are |
[
"increases.",
"decreases.",
"remains much the same.",
"Need more information."
] | 0A
| As more lamps are connected in series in a circuit the current in the power source |
[
"cool",
"warm up",
"Both",
"Neither"
] | 2C
| Newton’s law of cooling does not apply to objects that |
[
"day",
"month",
"year",
"None of these for the moon does not rotate about an axis"
] | 1B
| The fact that the Moon never shows its same face to Earth is evidence that the Moon rotates about its axis about once per |
[
"is mg",
"is greater than mg always",
"may be greater or less than mg",
"is less than mg always"
] | 1B
| Consider a ball rolling in a horizontal circular path on the outside surface of a cone. The normal force on the ball |
[
"in the same direction",
"in opposite directions",
"at right angles to each other",
"None of these"
] | 0A
| The compressions and rarefactions in sound always travel |
[
"200 W",
"500 W",
"800 W",
"2000 W"
] | 1B
| The power required to raise a 100-kg crate a horizontal distance of 2 m in a time of 4 s is |
[
"destruction",
"interference",
"resonance",
"amplification"
] | 1B
| Beats is not the result of sound. |
[
"sound waves",
"light waves",
"water waves",
"All of these"
] | 3D
| Interference is not characteristic of |
[
"kinetic energy",
"mass",
"number of nucleons",
"binding of nucleons"
] | 2C
| In either a fission event or a fusion event, a quantity that varies is the |
[
"speed",
"direction",
"Both of these",
"Neither of these"
] | 1B
| The magnetic force on a non-moving charged particle can not change the particle's |
[
"mass changes.",
"pulse decreases.",
"Both of these.",
"Neither of these."
] | 3D
| If you were to travel at a speed close to the speed of light, you could notice that your own |
[
"mass",
"energy",
"ultrahigh-frequency sound",
"light"
] | 3D
| Electricity and magnetism able to form |
[
"compressions",
"rarefactions",
"Both of these",
"Neither of these"
] | 2C
| Sound travels through air by a series of |
[
"amounts of force",
"accelerations",
"Both",
"Neither"
] | 0A
| When a cannonball is fired from a cannon, both the cannonball and the cannon experience varying |
[
"52",
"26",
"24",
"None."
] | 1B
| The nucleus of an electrically neutral iron atom contains 26 protons. The number of electrons this iron atom has is |
[
"absorbs red",
"reflects red",
"emits red",
"transmits red"
] | 1B
| To say that a rose petal is green is to say that it is wilted |
[
"10 times greater",
"100 times greater",
"1000 times greater",
"more than 1000 times greater"
] | 1B
| Compared with a sound of 60 decibels, a sound of 80 decibels has an intensity that is two times greater |
[
"magenta",
"yellow",
"cyan",
"white"
] | 0A
| When red and blue light are overlapped, the color produced is |
[
"40%",
"50%",
"60%",
"140%"
] | 0A
| When 100 J are put into a device that puts out 40 J of useful work, the efficiency of the device is |
[
"overlapping one another",
"constructively interfering",
"moving slower than the source producing them",
"All of these"
] | 3D
| Shock waves are not produced by waves of sound |
[
"3 N",
"5 N",
"8 N",
"None of these"
] | 3D
| A rock suspended by a weighing scale weighs 5 N out of water and 3 N when submerged in water. What is the downward force on the rock? |
[
"200 J",
"500 J",
"800 J",
"2000 J"
] | 3D
| The work done on a 100-kg crate that is moved 2 m in 4 s is |
[
"4q.",
"8q.",
"16q.",
"32q."
] | 3D
| A capacitor loses half its remaining charge every second. If after five seconds its charge is q what was its initial charge? |
[
"nucleons; nucleons.",
"electrons; electrons.",
"electrons; nucleons.",
"nucleons; electrons."
] | 3D
| The mass of an atom comes mostly from its _ ; and its volume from its _. |
[
"magnetic north and geographic north",
"magnetic north and geographic south",
"the earth’s magnetic field at any point and the vertical",
"the earth’s magnetic field at any point and the horizontal"
] | 3D
| The definition of gyroscope inclination is the angle between |
[
"intensity",
"frequency",
"amplitude",
"speed"
] | 1B
| The pitch of a sound is mostly related to its duration |
[
"increases",
"decreases",
"remains the same",
"None of these"
] | 1B
| As more lamps are connected to a parallel circuit, the current in the power source |
[
"reduces by 2",
"reduces by 4",
"increases by 2",
"increases by 4"
] | 1B
| When an element ejects an alpha particle, the chemical number of the resulting element is |
[
"an electric field",
"a magnetic field",
"Both of these",
"Neither of these"
] | 0A
| An electron can be slowed down by |
[
"zero",
"minus 1",
"minus 2",
"plus 1"
] | 0A
| A certain element emits 1 alpha particle, and its products then emit 2 beta particles in succession. The atomic number of the resulting element is unchanged by |
[
"forced vibration",
"resonance",
"refraction",
"amplitude reduction"
] | 1B
| When an object is set to vibrate by a wave that has an unmatched frequency, what occurs is |
[
"fluorescence",
"incandescence",
"de-excitation",
"polarization"
] | 2C
| The red glow in the neon tube of an advertising sign is due to |
[
"shorter in the direction of travel.",
"shrunken in all directions.",
"shorter in the direction perpendicular to travel.",
"longer in all directions."
] | 0A
| At very high speeds, an object appears to an observer at rest to be |
[
"frequency decreases, the wavelength increases, and the speed increases",
"frequency does not change, the wavelength increases, and the speed increases",
"frequency does not change, the wavelength decreases, and the speed decreases",
"frequency does not change, the wavelength increases, and the speed decreases"
] | 1B
| When a wave moves from deep water to shallow water, the |
[
"9.8 m/s2",
"more than 9.8 m/s2",
"less than 9.8 m/s2",
"Cannot say unless the speed of throw is given."
] | 0A
| When you drop a ball from rest it accelerates upward at 9.8 m/s2. If you instead throw it upward assuming no air resistance its acceleration immediately after leaving your hand is |
[
"atmosphere",
"food we eat",
"Earth’s interior",
"fallout of nuclear bomb tests"
] | 0A
| Carbon-14 is primarily produced by cosmic rays in the |
[
"kinetic energy",
"energy conversion",
"mass conversion",
"ejected neutrons"
] | 3D
| Cages in a fission reactor are caused by |
[
"zero",
"practically zero",
"appreciably weaker than at Earth’s surface",
"without a component of force along their circular path"
] | 3D
| Satellites in circular Earth orbit maintain a constant speed because gravitational force on them is always |
[
"magenta",
"yellow",
"cyan",
"white"
] | 1B
| The color blue is |
[
"steadily in one direction",
"in one direction",
"to and fro",
"All of these"
] | 1B
| In ac electric circuits, charges do not flow |
[
"current in one direction.",
"presence of moisture.",
"high voltage and low body resistance.",
"voltage difference across part or all of your body."
] | 3D
| To not receive an electric shock there must be a |
[
"less than 3000 N",
"3000 N",
"greater than 3000 N",
"Need more information"
] | 1B
| The force that the board exerts on the hand during this event is not 3000 N |
[
"period",
"wavelength",
"amplitude",
"None of these"
] | 1B
| Find the amplitude of a wave by multiplying its frequency by its |