The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is a
A) parabola.
B) hyberbola.
C) catenary.
You look at the clock on the Big Ben Tower in London and it reads 12 noon. If you
could hypothetically travel away from the clock at the speed of light and view it with a
telescope, it would
A) run slower than a clock in your vehicle.
B) run faster than a clock in your vehicle.
C) be frozen at 12 noon.
A painting looks less flat when viewed with
A) one eye.
B) both eyes.
C) Polaroid glasses.
A river 100 m wide flows due south. A boat that goes 1 m/s relative to the water is
pointed due east as it crosses from the west bank. The boat crosses in
A) 50 s.
B) 100 s.
C) 141 s.
D) 200 s.
The refraction of light in a diamond is greater for
A) long-wavelength light.
B) short-wavelength light.
C) both refract the same
The magnetic fields of a pair of nearby magnets can
A) only add.
B) cannot add or subtract.
C) add or subtract by vector rules.
Object and image for a plane mirror occur
A) along the same plane.
B) equal distances from the mirror.
C) at right angles to each other.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Twelve seconds after starting from rest, a freely-falling cantelope has a speed of
A) 10 m/s.
B) 50 m/s.
C) 100 m/s.
D) more than 100 m/s.
The force on a dropped apple hitting the ground depends upon
A) the speed of the apple just before it hits.
B) the time of contact with the ground.
C) whether or not the apple bounces.
D) all of the above
When Nellie Newton hangs at rest in the middle of a clothesline, the tension will not be
the same in each side of the rope when
A) the lengths of rope on each side are different.
B) the angles at each side of the rope are unequal.
C) she is in equilibrium.
D) none of the above
An object in a vacuum has no
A) buoyant force.
B) mass.
C) weight.
D) temperature.
E) all of the above
The weight of air in a column 1-m2 in cross section that extends from sea level to the
top of the atmosphere is
A) 101 N.
B) 10,100 N.
C) 101,000 N.
D) 101,000,000 N.
A swimming area in a rotating space habitat is located in a region of 1/4 g. If a diver
can jump 1 m high in a 1-g region, how high can the same diver jump in the swimming
area?
A) 1 m
B) 2 m
C) 4 m
D) 16 m
E) more than 16 m
To increase the temperature of 50 grams of water by 2 Celsius degrees requires
A) 0.04 calorie.
B) 2 calories.
C) 4.19 calories.
D) 25 calories.
E) 100 calories.
Fourier analysis is something accomplished
A) with all musical instruments.
B) automatically by humans.
C) both of these
D) neither of these
Compared with the amount of current in the filament of a lamp, the amount of current
in the connecting wires is
A) definitely less.
B) often less.
C) actually more.
D) the same.
E) incredibly, all of the above
If the volume of an object were doubled while its mass remained the same, its density
would
A) be half.
B) double.
C) stay the same.
D) be four times as great.
A 1-kg mass at the Earth’s surface weighs
A) 1 N.
B) 5 N.
C) 10 N.
D) 12 N.
E) none of the above
Fermat’s principle applies to
A) reflection.
B) refraction.
C) both of these
D) neither of these
A watch dial that continues to glow after a week in the dark is almost certainly
A) fluorescent.
B) phosphorescent.
C) polarized.
D) radioactive.
If you move in the direction in which gravity acts, an observer at rest sees your watch
running
A) slower than at your starting point.
B) faster than at your starting point.
C) neither of these
Double-pane windows contain nitrogen rather than air to prevent
A) gas escape.
B) thermal conduction.
C) condensation.
D) heat flow.
Soaring birds and glider pilots can remain aloft for hours without expending power, due
to
A) conduction.
B) convection.
C) radiation.
D) all of the above
Every heat engine
A) gains heat from a high-temperature reservoir.
B) converts energy into mechanical work.
C) expels heat to a lower-temperature reservoir.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
In a hydraulic-press operation, it is impossible for the
A) output displacement to exceed the input displacement.
B) force output to exceed the force input.
C) energy output to exceed the energy input.
D) output piston’s speed to exceed the input piston’s speed.
E) none of the above
A karate expert executes a swift blow and breaks a cement block with her bare hand.
The magnitude of the force on her hand is
A) zero.
B) less than the force applied to the cement block.
C) the same as the force applied to the block.
D) more than the force applied to the block.
E) need more information
A “burning glass” used to concentrate sunlight in a tiny spot is a
A) converging lens.
B) diverging lens.
C) either of these
D) neither of these
The force that accelerates the orange and apple system featured in your textbook is
actually supplied by the
A) apple.
B) orange.
C) floor.
A transformer transforms voltage while
A) producing energy.
B) producing power.
C) transferring energy from one coil to another.
D) transferring current from one coil to another.
The lift experienced by Maglev trains is due to magnetic
A) attraction.
B) repulsion.
C) dipoles.
As the speed of a particle approaches the speed of light, the momentum of the particle
A) approaches zero.
B) approaches infinity.
C) transforms to energy.
D) is no longer in spacetime.
Ice cubes submerged at the bottom of a liquid indicate that the liquid
A) produces insufficient buoyant force on the ice.
B) is warmer than the ice.
C) is only partly displaced by the submerged ice.
D) is less dense than ice.
The Schrdinger equation is most useful for describing
A) submicroscopic particles.
B) microscopic particles.
C) macroscopic particles.
D) none of the above