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Drill and Practice Review
Units and Formulas #3

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1
Given two pulleys are rotating in unison because a common belt passes over their rims, which value is the same for both pulleys: their tangential velocity or their angular velocity?
2
Given two specks of dust are on a common rotating record's surface, which value is the same for both: their tangential velocity or their angular velocity?
3


What force supplies the centripetal force to keep the specks of dust on the record's surface as it rotates?

4
At what points in a spring/pendulum's oscillation is the its velocity maximum?
5
At what points in a spring/pendulum's oscillation is the its acceleration maximum?
6
In thin film interference, when are reflections out-of-phase with the incident beam?
7
If both a 40 Watt light bulb and a 100 Watt bulb are plugged into identical 120 volt outlets, which one has the thicker filament?
8
What is the speed of light in a vacuum?
9
What is the speed of sound in a vacuum?
10
When a wavefront moves from a fast medium to a second slower medium, which way does it bend?
11
When a wavefront moves from a fast medium to a second slower medium, how is its wavelength changed?
12
When a wavefront moves from a fast medium to a second slower medium, how is its frequency changed?
13
How long is a loop in a standing wave?
14
unit to measure capacitance
15
unit to measure magnetic flux density
16
unit to measure impulse
17
Distinquish between distance and displacement.
18
units to measure a spring's constant, k
19
unit to measure specific heat
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unit to measure latent heat



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