Description : As the temperature of the air increases from 0 degrees C to 20 degrees C, the wavelength of a sound made by a tuning fork of fixed frequency does which of the following? Does the wavelength w) increase x) decrease y) remain the same z) increase up to a maximum, then remain constant
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- INCREASE
Description : Ten calories of heat are added to 2 grams of water. The temperature of the water rises to a total of how many degrees? Is it: w) 2 degrees Celsius x) 5 degrees Celsius y) 10 degrees Celsius z) 20 degrees Celsius
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- 5 DEGREES CELSIUS
Description : In Celsius, the freezing point of a one-molal water solution of sodium phosphate, chemical formula Na3PO4, is expected to be: w) - 0.93 degrees Celsius x) - 1.86 degrees Celsius y) - 7.44 degrees Celsius z) - 3.72 degrees Celsius
Last Answer : ANSWER: C -- (- 7.44 DEGREES CELSIUS)
Description : What is a calorie? w) amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree Celsius. x) amount of work required to move one gram of water by one centimeter. y) amount of heat required to melt ice. z) amount of heat required to raise one gram of water one degree Fahrenheit
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- AMOUNT OF HEAT REQUIRED TO RAISE ONE GRAM OF WATER ONE DEGREE CELSIUS
Description : When a radioisotope undergoes beta minus decay, does its atomic number: w) increase x) decrease y) remain the same z) vary depending on the element involved
Description : What is 20 degrees Celsius in degrees Kelvin? w) 70 degrees x) 293 degees y) 100 degrees z) 212 degrees
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- 293 DEGREES
Description : A rise in temperature of 20 Kelvin degrees is equal to a rise of: w) 20 degrees Celsius x) 36 degrees Celsius y) 68 degrees Celsius z) 293 degrees Celsius
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- 20 DEGREES CELSIUS
Description : In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest from their last previously established camp at an altitude of 27,900 feet (barometric pressure ... degrees Celsius x) boiled at 68 degrees Celsius y) not boiled at any temperature z) sublimed
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- BOILED AT 68 DEGREES CELSIUS
Description : The amount of chemical coagulant added for treatment of polluted water __________ with increase in temperature of the polluted water to be treated. (A) Decreases (B) Increases (C) Remain constant (D) May increase or decrease; depends on the chemical characteristics of polluted water
Last Answer : (A) Decreases
Description : A sample of grapefruit juice at 25 degrees Celsius has a hydronium concentration of 1.78 X 10-3 molar. What is the pH of the solution? w) 2.22 x) 2.75 y) 3.25 z) 6.33
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- 2.75
Description : If the temperature of the atmosphere rose 50 degr on a Fahrenheit thermometer, the rise on a Celsius thermometer would have been: w) 90 degrees x) 82.3 degrees y) 50.3 degrees z) 27.8 degrees
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- 27.8 DEGREES
Description : Consider two water drops at a temperature T. These drops are NOT allowed to exchange energy with their environment. These two drops collide and combine. How does the temperature of these drops change when they combine? Does it: w) decrease x) remain the same y) increase
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- INCREASE
Description : If water is warmed from 0 degrees Celsius to 6 degrees Celsius, which of the following things happen. Will the water: w) expand steadily x) contract steadily y) expand at first and then contract z) contract first then expand
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- CONTRACT FIRST THEN EXPAND
Description : At what point is the temperature the same on the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales? w) Absolute zero x) Zero y) Negative 40 degrees z) Never
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- NEGATIVE 40 DEGREES
Description : A gas at 0 degrees C and at normal atmospheric pressure has a volume of 273 cubic centimeters. If it is held at constant pressure until its volume is doubled, its temperature will be which one of the ... it be w) 2 degrees Celsius x) 200 degrees Celsius y) 273 degrees Celsius z) 546 degrees Celsius
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- 273 DEGREES CELSIUS
Description : A bucket of water is hanging from a spring balance. An iron piece is suspended into water without touching sides of bucket from another support. The spring balance reading will (A) Increase (B) Decrease (C) Remain same (D) Increase/decrease depending on depth of immersion
Last Answer : Answer: Option C
Description : The radiator of a room contains 10 kilogram of water. If the water gives off 50,000 calories of heat to the room, the drop in temperature of the water is: w) 1 degree Celsius x) 2 degrees Celsius y) 5 degrees Celsius z) 10 degrees Celsius
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- 5 DEGREES CELSIUS
Description : Which of the following best completes the statement: The calorie is the amount of heat needed to raise: w) 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius x) 1 gram of water 1 degree Rankin y) 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius z) 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Kelvin
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- 1 GRAM OF WATER 1 DEGREE CELSIUS
Description : At zero degrees Celsius and one atmosphere (STP), the volume of a gas is 1,000 milliliters. If the temperature is increased to 25 degrees Celsius and the pressure is doubled, what is the new volume of the gas? w) 546 milliliters x) 500 milliliters y) 1,000 milliliters z) 273 milliliters
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- 546 MILLILITERS
Description : If the temperature is increased the amount of SO3(g) produced will: A increase. B decrease. C remain the same.
Last Answer : B decrease.
Description : What is considered to be the approximate difference in average temperature between the "little ice age" and today? w) 1 to 3 degrees centigrade x) 5 to 8 degrees centigrade y) 10 to 12 degrees centigrade z) 15 to 20 degrees centigrade
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- 1 TO 3 DEGREES CENTIGRADE
Description : The atmospheric temperature during melting of ice/snow (in the atmosphere) (A) Decreases (B) Increases (C) Remain same (D) May increase or decrease; depends on the altitude where snow melts Answer
Last Answer : A) Decreases
Description : In order to find the specific heat capacity of an unknown material a 50 g piece is heated to 80 degrees Celsius and fully immersed in a well insulated calorimeter filled with 100 g of water at 10 degr?
Last Answer : Assuming that the full question, which the questioner failed to post, is given in the Discussion, below.Taking the specific heat capacity of water as 4.2 Joules per gram per degree C, the metal has a specific heat capacity as approx 0.68 Joules/(g °C).
Description : The equilibrium constant of chemical reaction __________ in the presence of catalyst. (A) Increases (B) Decreases (C) Remain unaffected (D) Can either increase or decrease (depends on the type of catalyst)
Last Answer : (C) Remain unaffected
Description : As a certain type of clothing becomes more fashionable, we would expect its equilibrium price (a) to decrease and quantity will remain constant ; (b) and quantity will decrease; (c) to increase and quantity to decrease ; (d) and quantity to increase
Last Answer : ; (d) and quantity to increase
Description : When the ice floating in a glass of water melts, the level of water will (a) Increase (b) Decrease (c) Remain constant (d) First increase and then decrease
Last Answer : Ans:(c)
Description : With increase in impurities in metals, their corrosion resistances (A) Increase (B) Decrease (C) Remain same (D) May increase or decrease; depending on the type of metal
Last Answer : (B) Decrease
Description : As the C/H ratio of the fuel increases, the amount of CO2 formed on combustion __________ for the same percentage of excess air. (A) Decreases (B) Increases (C) Remain same (D) May increase or decrease depending on the type of fuel
Last Answer : (B) Increases
Description : A piece of ice is floating in water kept in a beaker. When all the ice melts the level of water will - (1) first rise and then fall (2) fall (3) remain the same (4) rise
Last Answer : (3) remain the same Explanation: The submerged portion of the ice on melting shrinks a little in volume. So the level of water goes down a little. But this is just made up by the water added by the melting of upper portion.
Description : From a vessel containing 100 litres of wine,10 litres are drawn out and an equal amount of water is added. From the mixture,10 litres is again drawn out and same quantity of water is added. What is the final ratio of wine and water? a) 91 : 9 b) 81 : 19 c) 80 : 20 d) 90 : 10 e) None of these
Last Answer : Quantity of wine after two replacements = 100 l × (90/100)2 =81 l Required ratio = 81 : ( 100 – 81 )= 81 : 19 Answer: b)
Description : What is the number of degrees of freedom for liquid water in equilibrium with a mixture of nitrogen and water vapor? (A) 2 (B) 0 (C) 3 (D) 1
Last Answer : (A) 2
Description : A COPPER strip is placed in one compartment of a voltaic cell and a wire connects this strip to a piece of metal in the other compartment through a voltmeter. If the voltmeter reads zero, the other piece of metal is: w) zinc x) mercury y) silver z) copper
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- COPPER
Description : When you push down on the piston of a bicycle pump, the air is compressed into a smaller volume, which causes its temperature to: w) decrease x) increase y) stay the same
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- INCREASE
Description : As one moves down a group of the periodic table, the tendency to lose electrons does which of the following? w) increase x) decrease y) stay the same
Description : Consider the following gaseous equilibrium: PCl3 + Cl2 = PCl5 + heat. Which of the following changes will shift it to the right: w) lower the temperature x) remove some Cl2 y) increase the volume z) add a catalyst
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- LOWER THE TEMPERATURE
Description : If all the Earth's ice melted, the increase in sea level would be approximately: w) 100 meters x) 2 meters y) 70 meters z) 20 meters
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- 70 METERS
Description : When the speed of a train moving on a circular track is doubled, the centripetal force acting on the train does one of the following. Does the force: w) remain the same x) increase by a factor of 2 y) increase by a factor of 4 z) increase by a factor of 8
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- INCREASE BY A FACTOR OF 4
Description : A solid ball of metal has a spherical cavity inside it. When the ball is heated the volume of the cavity will - (1) increase (2) decrease (3) remain unaffected (4) have its shape changed
Last Answer : (1) increase Explanation: The metal ball can be considered to be made up of several layers of thinner ones. On heating each of these layers will increase in radius.
Description : A solid ball of metal has a spherical cavity inside it. When the ball is heated the volume of the cavity will - (1) Increase (2) decrease (3) remain unaffected (4) have its shape changed
Last Answer : (1) Increase Explanation: The metal ball can be considered to be made up of several layers of thinner ones. On heating each of these layers will increase in radius. As the inner most layer also increases its radius, the volume inside it i.e, the volume of the hollow portion will also increase.
Description : A metal plate with a circular hole at the centre is heated. What will happen to the area of the hole? (1) Increase (2) Decrease (3) Remain constant (4) Will increase first and then decrease
Last Answer : (1) Increase Explanation: Assuming the disc is uniform and isotropic (the same in different directions), the hole will expand in the same ratio as the metal. It is because the thermal expansion equation ... is made out of metal. And if the circumference of the hole expands, so does the diameter.
Description : The number of degrees of freedom for a mixture of ice and water (liquid) are (A) 3 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D) 0
Last Answer : (C) 1
Description : How many calories are required to raise the temperature of 20 grams of water from 40 degrees to 60 degrees? w) 40 cal x) 400 cal y) 20 cal z) 200 cal
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- 400 cal
Description : As a 10 kilogram mass on the end of a spring passes through its equilibrium position, the kinetic energy of the mass is 20 joules. The speed of the mass is: w) 2.0 meters per second x) 4.0 meters per second y) 5.0 meters per second z) 6.3 meters per second
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- 2.0 METERS PER SECOND
Description : With the lowering of equilibrium pressure, at a given temperature, the amount of adsorbate on the adsorbent (A) Increases (B) Decreases (C) Remain same (D) Either (A) or (B), depends on the system
Last Answer : (B) Decreases
Description : When a bond is formed between two atoms, the energy of the sys-tem will – (1) increase (2) decrease (3) remain the same (4) may increase or decrease
Last Answer : (3) remain the same Explanation: The fundamental reason for the bonding of atoms is that they lose their stored potential energy by forming bonds. This is the only reason for chemical combination. ... a bond is formed between two atoms, stored potential enemy is always released to the surroundings.
Description : When a bond is formed between two atoms, the energy of the system will (1) increase (2) decrease (3) remain the same (4) may increase or decrease
Last Answer : remain the same
Description : According to Gauss' Law, the magnitude of the electric field is zero everywhere inside a conductor if: w) electrostatic equilibrium is achieved x) the surface is a metal y) the conductor is moving z) the conductor is a non-Gaussian surface
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- ELECTROSTATIC EQUILIBRIUM IS ACHIEVED
Description : With decrease in temperature, the equilibrium conversion of a reversible endothermic reaction (A) Decreases (B) Increases (C) Remain unaffected (D) Increases linearly with temperature
Description : Reynolds number for water flow through a tube of I.D. 5 cm is 1500. If a liquid of 5 centipoise viscosity and 0.8 specific gravity flows in the same pipe at the same velocity, then the pressure drop will (A) Increase (B) Decrease (C) Remain same (D) Data insufficient to predict pressure drop
Last Answer : (A) Increase
Description : A centrifugal pump used to pump water is used to pump an oil withspecific gravity of 0.8 at the same rate. The power consumption will now (A) Increase (B) Decrease (C) Remain same (D) Data insufficient to predict