AP Physics 2 Cumulative Review

If you rub a balloon with a piece of wool cloth, the balloon will:

• Be attracted to the wool cloth

• Be repelled by the wool cloth

• Have no interaction with the wool cloth

• Not enough information is given to determine what will happen

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The capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor can be increased by: 

• increasing the charge 
• decreasing the charge 
• increasing the plate separation
• decreasing the plate separation 

What happens to the current in the circuit during the charging process of a capacitor?

• Decreases over time
• Increases over time
• Remains constant

Which point has the largest magnitude of electric field?

• A

• C

• E

• all the same

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According to the second law of thermodynamics, natural processes go in the direction that ____ the total entropy of the universe.

• Increases or Decreases

• Increases

• Decreases

• maintains

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The PV diagram for an adiabatic process looks similar to the PV diagram for...

• ... Isochoric process

• ...Isothermal process

• ... Isobaric process

• It does not look similar to any of these charts

According to the Archimedes’ principle, the buoyant force on an object is equal to the _____ of the fluid that the object displaces.

• mass

• weight

• density

The buoyant force on a diver _____ as the diver swims deeper.

• increases

• decreases

• remains constant

• varies

A person wearing boots and a person wearing stilleto heels stand on a wooden floor. They both have the same weight. Which person exerts a greater pressure on the floor?

• boots because they have a larger surface area

• stiletto heels because they have a larger surface area

• boots because they have a smaller surface area

• stiletto heels boots because they have a smaller surface area

According to Bernoulli's Principle, when the wind speed is high, wind pressure is ________

• high
• low
• not enough information
• None of the above