A piece of iron rests on top of a piece of wood floating in a bathtub. If the iron is removed from the wood, what happens to the water level in the tub?

A)

It goes up.
B)

It goes down.
C)

It does not change.
D)

cannot be determined from the information given


B

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An object of mass m sits on a flat table. The Earth pulls on this object with force mg, which we will call the action force. What is the reaction force?

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The internal energy of a material does not depend upon which of the following?

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The combining of two nuclei to form a larger nucleus with the release of energy is

a. nuclear fission. b. nuclear fusion. c. neutron activation. d. nuclear emission. e. beta decay.

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