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6. I force 200 cm3 of water through a slanted pipe whose cross-sectional area is constant at 10 cm2. The pressure at the pipe inlet is 150 N/cm2 higher than […]

5. I measure time using a pendulum. I find that a pendulum swinging from a fixed support oscillates with a different period than one whose support is accelerated horizontally with […]

4. Unpolarized light is passed through a polarizing sheet. Which of the following statements describes the output beam? a. It is polarized and its intensity is reduced. b. It is […]

3. Two children hold opposite ends of a rope and excite a sinusoidal travelling wave in the vertical plane. A bystander notices that the time it takes for the rope […]

2. Why is it easier to throw a Frisbee only with one hand, rather than with both? a. Throwing with both hands accelerates the Frisbee, making it unstable. b. Momentum […]

1. A beam of light from a laser pointer passes through air and then enters a glass block of refractive index 1.33. The wavelength of this laser beam in air […]

15. The function x + sin(x) is best described as a. non-decreasing b. non-increasing c. decreasing d. increasing Is x + sin(x) Non-Decreasing? Monotonicity Analysis & Derivative Proof The function […]

14. Suppose paper currency comes in denominations of Ones, Twos, Fives, Tens, Twenties, and Fifties. What is the smallest number of notes I must carry, to exactly generate any amount […]

13. A bus is carrying 23 passengers. The average weight of these passengers is 64±10 kilograms (mean ± standard deviation). 5 passengers get down at a bus stop. No new […]

12. Solar eclipses do not occur every month. This is because: a. The Earth is significantly larger than the moon b. the moon orbits the earth in the opposite sense […]