Jupiter's magnetic field is ________ Earth's magnetic field.

A) about 20,000 times as strong as
B) about the same strength as
C) about twice as strong as
D) much weaker than


A) about 20,000 times as strong as

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A driver in a car traveling at slams on the brakes and skids to a stop. If the coefficient of friction between the tires and the level road is 0.80, how long will the skid marks be?

A) 37 m B) 30 m C) 46 m D) 34 m

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The white light emitted by a fluorescent lamp is provided by the

A) mercury vapor in the lamp. B) phosphors on the inner surface of the lamp. C) high temperature of the glowing gas. D) filtering effect of the glass tubing.

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One of the first atomic bombs released energy equivalent to that of 20,000 tons of TNT explosive. How much mass was converted to energy by this explosion, given that 1000 tons of TNT produce 4.3 × 1012 J of energy

Incidentally, modern H-bombs have energy yields 1000 times as much! (c = 3.0 × 108 m/s)

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What is needed, in addition to the parts of the Bohr model used to calculate the energies of a hydrogen atom, to understand the periodicity of the elements?

a. An understanding of the photoelectric effect. b. The calculated radii of the orbits in which electrons move. c. The principle that alkali metals (in the column of the Periodic Table containing lithium, sodium, potassium, etc.) have their outer shell of electrons filled. d. The principle that atoms have shells that each hold a certain number of electrons, with filled shells being the most stable. e. The principle that the noble gas elements accept electrons easily from other atoms.

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