BAED-PHSC2112 Physical Science
BAED-PHSC2112 Physical Science
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What are the two main types of photodetectors? (separate your answers with the word "and")
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Phenomenon of light wherein light waves add up
Answer: INTERFERENCE
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Statement based on repeated experimental observations
Answer: LAW
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Which of Kepler's laws compares the orbital period and radius of orbit of a planet to those of
other planets?
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b.
Third law
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It is the transformation of radiant energy to heat by its interaction with matter.
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b.
Absorption
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Type of collision wherein the total kinetic energy is constant before and after the collision
Answer: ELASTIC
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What is the optical device that is used to show the bouncing of light?
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a.
Mirror
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Combination of two ancient models of the universe
Answer: TYCHONIC
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Bending of light around an edge causing umbra and penumbra in the shadow
Answer: DIFFRACTION
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Galileo looked at the Sun and found out that it had spots.
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True
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Which of the following sound wave can be heard by the human ear?
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a.
Sound waves with frequencies between 20 hz and 20,000 hz
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Date of the year when the Earth is closest to the Sun
Answer: PERIHELION
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What kind of wave is represented by a sine wave?
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Transverse
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Which of these has a greater inertia: fly or cat?
Answer: CAT
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What phenomenon of light is utilized to identify the wavelength of a given light ray?
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a.
Dispersion
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Line on Earth that is parallel to apparent daily paths
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Necessary component of motion according to Aristotle
Answer: FORCE
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This quantity causes the acceleration of a body when this it applied.
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c.
Gravity
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Tycho Brahe discovered a supernova near the constellation of Orion in 1572.
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False
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This quantity describes how difficult it is to stop a moving body.
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a.
Momentum
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Aside from changing the state of motion of a body, this is also an effect of applying an
unbalanced force to the body.
Answer: ACCELERATION
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This motion is also called the revolution of the Earth around the sun.
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Which can be easily affected by an unbalanced force: one cube of ice or one sack of rice?
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The Ptolemaic, Copernican, and Tychonic theories were attempts to model the naked-eye
observations of the day time.
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False
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What is the more common term for the annual motion of the Earth with respect to the sun?
Answer: REVOLUTION
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Motion of the Earth responsible for diurnal motion
Answer: rotation
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As measured in any inertial frame of reference, light is always propagated in empty space with a
definite velocity that is independent of the state of motion of the emitting body.
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a.
True
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What do you call the event when the sun crosses the Celestial Equator?
Answer: EQUINOX
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This law of Newton states that when one body exerts a force on a second body, the second
body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first
body.
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c.
Third law
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Wave that can propagate even without molecules
Answer: TRANSVERSE
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According to Hertz, he pictured waves of electric charge moving back and forth, creating a
standing wave within the wire.
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a.
True
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What is the universe model that is said to be Sun-centered?
Answer: COPERNICAN
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Type of mirror that shows an inverted image of you
Answer: CONCAVE
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This constant determines how much light will bend as it enters a different medium.
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l.
Index of Refraction
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What is the periodic observable motion that is the result of the Earth’s movement on its axis?
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What test equipment combines the operation of many test instruments into a single compact
unit.
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b.
Communication service monitor
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Special relativity is a theory.
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a.
True
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What is the correct expression for the amplitude of a vibrating mass? Amplitude is the
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a.
Maximum displacement of the mass from the rest position
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Decreases as acceleration increases in Newton’s law of acceleration
Answer: MASS
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The postulates of special relativity can be expressed very succinctly using the mathematical
language of pseudo-Riemmannian manifolds
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a.
True
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According to Galileo, this quantity is not needed to keep a body in motion under ideal
conditions.
Answer: FORCE
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This is also known as the “inertia in motion” of a body.
Answer: MOMENTUM
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What kind of wave is light?
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a.
Transverse
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Not necessarily conserved between colliding bodies
Answer: ENERGY
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Mercury and Venus are never more than 200 and 450, respectively, from the Sun.
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False
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In light, this is what the photons carry enabling them to move.
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k.
Energy
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Type of observable motion associated with heavenly bodies
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This quantity enables bodies to move so that they would collide.
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f.
Energy
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Statement taken to be true since what it proposes is already evident
Answer: AXIOM
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In this type of collision, this factor is not necessarily conserved.
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g.
Energy