If an object is placed exactly halfway between Earth and the Moon, it would fall toward the

A) Earth.
B) Moon.
C) neither of these


Answer: A

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What will be an ideal response?

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The tarp covering on a trailer or truck puffs upward for fast-moving vehicles, which illustrates

A) Pascal's principle. B) Archimedes' principle. C) the principle of continuity. D) Bernoulli's principle.

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Consider a particle moving with constant speed such that its acceleration of constant magnitude is always perpendicular to its velocity

A) It is moving in a straight line. B) It is moving in a circle. C) It is moving in a parabola. D) It is moving in a hyperbola. E) None of the above is definitely true all of the time.

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