Which of the following energy forms is involved in a pencil falling from a desk?

A 3.00 kg toy falls from a height of 10.0 m. Just before hitting the ground, what will be its kinetic energy? (Disregard air resistance. g = 9.8 m/sec2)

What is the kinetic energy of a 0.135 kg baseball thrown at 40.0 m/s?

Which of the following energy forms is associated with an object in motion?

Which of the following is the rate at which energy is transferred?

What is the average power supplied by a 60.0 kg secretary running up a flight of stairs rising vertically 4.0 m in 4.2 secs?

Which of the following energy forms is involved in winding a pocket watch?

When a force is exerted on an object, work is done only if the object 

A construction worker pushes a wheelbarrow 5.0 m with a horizontal force of 50.0 N. How much work is done by the worker on the wheelbarrow? 

Potential energy is the energy an object has because of its

The fulcrum is the

Which of the following is NOT a simple machine?

The ratio of output work to input work is called

A small car and a large car are pushed from rest across a parking lot, equal distances with equal forces. The vehicle that receives more change in kinetic energy is the

Heat flow occurs between two bodies in thermal contact when they differ in which of the following properties?

If two small beakers of water, one at 70oC and one at 80oC, are emptied into a large beaker, what is the final temperature of the water?

All of the following are widely used temperature scales EXCEPT

If 546oK equals 273oC, then 500oK equals

A substance registers a temperature change from 20oC to 40oC. This corresponds to an incremental change of

Energy transferred as heat always moves from an object

Which of the following terms describes a transfer of energy?

High temperature is related to 

At what point on the figure above does the substance undergo a phase change?

Which of the following is a substance in which the temperature and pressure remain constant while the substance experiences an inward transfer of energy?

On a sunny day at the beach, the reason the sand gets hot and the water stays relatively cool is attributed to the difference in which property between water and sand? 

Heat transfer by conduction occurs when

Heat transfer by convection occurs when 

Heat travels from the sun to the earth by

A substance’s temperature increases as a direct result of 

Evaporation refers to the change in state from a 

How much heat is absorbed by 60 grams of copper when it is heated from 20oC to 80oC?

Which of the following is NOT an example of approximate simple harmonic motion?

Which of the following is the time it takes to complete a cycle of motion?

Which of the following is the number of cycles or vibrations per unit of time

How are frequency and period related in simple wave motion?

An amusement park ride has a frequency of 0.05 Hz. What is the ride’s period?

Which of the following is considered a single disturbance in wave motion?

A musical tone sounded on a piano has a frequency of 410 Hz and a wavelength of 0.80 m. What is the wave speed of the sound wave?

Another name for transverse wave is

In the transverse wave shown above, the high point or the maximum distance from the equilibrium point is 

In the longitudinal wave shown above, the stretched regions are the same as the

In the longitudinal wave shown above, the compressed regions are the same as the

A periodic wave has a wavelength of 0.50 m and a speed of 20 m/sec. What is the wave frequency?

Which type of wave moves in a direction perpendicular to the movement of the medium

When a wave travels, the medium it travels in 

A trough is the _____of the wave

Amplitude is the

Velocity of a wave depends on

Which of the following represents the type of interference that results when 2 waves are added together to form the resultant wave with a higher amplitude? 

Which of the following is the type of interference that results when 2 waves are moving opposite of each other and could have cancellation

Which of the following types of interference will occur in the figure above? (HINT: note the amplitude?

How many nodes and antinodes are shown in the standing wave above

When a wave hits a “rigid barrier” or a fixed boundary, waves are

Which of the following is defined as: bending around a medium to transfer wave energy?

Which of the following is defined as: bending around a medium to transfer wave energy?

Standing waves are produced by periodic waves of

The source of all waves motion is a 

The distance between successive identical parts of a wave is called its

Sound is an example of 

In a vacuum, electromagnetic radiation waves of short wavelengths

When red light is compared with violet light,

In the electromagnetic spectrum, waves that have short wavelength

The farther light is from a source

If you are reading a book and you move twice as far away from the light source, how does the brightness at the new distance compare with that at the old distance

According to the law of reflection, if a light source strikes the surface at an angle of 20 degrees, the reflected ray will be

When red light and green light shine on the same place on a piece of white paper, the spot appears to be

Which of the following is NOT an additive primary color? 

What color does yellow pigment subtract from white light?

What color does blue pigment subtract from white light? 

Which of the following is NOT a primary subtractive color?  

Which pair of glasses is best suited for automobile drivers? The transmission axes are shown by straight lines on the lenses. (Hint: The light reflects off the hood of the car.) 

If you looked at a light through the lenses from two polarizing sunglasses that were overlapped at right angles to one another

The shadow produced by an object held close to a piece of paper in sunlight will be

Light waves are

Light reflected from the surface of a lake or pool is polarized because the light rays are traveling

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 materials for light transmission? 

Which of these is an example of a TRANSLUCENT material? 

Which of these is an example of a TRANSPARENT material?

A "partial" shadow that contains a blurry, fuzzy region is called

The unit of measurement for luminous intensity is

White light can be diffraction by a glass prism into

The color that travels fastest through clear glass is

Complementary colors are two colors that 

The 3 paint colors that are useful for color subtraction are 

The color of an opaque object is determined by the light that is

When r ed and blue light shine on a white sheet, the resulting color is

The complementary color of green is

Which of the following is NOT part of the electromagnetic spectrum? 

The color of an object that we see with our eyes is determined by the 

Magenta light is really a mixture of

A sheet of red paper will look BLACK when illuminated with

The cyan color of ocean water is due to the fact that water absorbs what color?

The colors of light given off by the spectra of elements is due to the fact that

The 3 primary colors of light addition are

The color BLACK is a

A RED apple looks RED because

Which color is seen in equal brightness and intensity by ALL? 

When describing "how bright" light is, the correct term is

If a light ray strikes a flat mirror at an angle of 29° from the normal, the reflected ray will be