PHYS 60441

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subject Authors Charles A. Higgins, James Shipman, Jerry D. Wilson

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A high tide is occurring at Charleston, South Carolina (80W, 33N). What two
longitudes are experiencing low tide?
The imaginary, huge, apparently moving sphere on which the stars appear to be
mounted is called the _______________ sphere.
A certain radio wave has a wavelength of 6.0 x 10-2m. What is its frequency in hertz?
Folded rock layers that resemble an arch are called ______________.
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The most important climatic factors that affect the rate of chemical weathering are heat
and ______________.
A star of magnitude 2 is how many times brighter than a star of magnitude 4?
Meteorologists commonly measure and report (on radio and television) pressure in units
of ______________.
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A sidereal day is ______________ than a solar day.
In both the Bohr model and the Schrdinger model of the atom, the letter nis called the
______________.
Changes in Earth's thermal balance by decreasing the transparency of the atmosphere to
insolation can result from ______________ pollution.
A stationary but movable 450-kg cannon is fired, and the 12-kg cannonball moves off to
the right with a velocity of 20.0 m/s. What is the cannon's velocity (neglecting friction
or any restraints)?
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California's Sierra Nevada are examples of ______________ mountains.
A stream's load is divided into three components: ______________ load, suspended
load, and bed load.
The rate at which the temperature decreases with altitude is called the
______________.
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The number of nucleons in a nucleus is the same as the number of neutrons plus the
number of _______________.
Complete destructive interference occurs for two waves of the same amplitude and
frequency when the waves are ______________ degrees out of phase.
Calculate the radius in nanometers of the orbit of a hydrogen atom's electron with n= 5.
A change in the direction of a wave because of a change in the velocity of the wave is
called ______________.
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The upper boundary of the zone of saturation is called the ______________.

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