Physics MCQs

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Atmospheric pressure is the force that causes liquid to rise in a syringe when the piston is pulled up. When the syringe is placed with its opening in a liquid and the plunger is pulled up, the air pressure inside the barrel becomes much less than the atmospheric pressure acting on the liquid. Fluids flow from a high pressure area to a low pressure area. Once the pressure inside the syringe is lower than the pressure outside the syringe, the fluid will flow into the syringe.

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The normal temperature for a human body is 310 kelvins is 36.85 degrees Celsius. The average normal body temperature is generally accepted as 98.6°F.

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The correct answer is that the person hears the sound waves twice: first via steel and then via air. Sound travels faster in solids than in gases. in steel, it travels at about 5,960 m/s, while in air, it travels at approximately 343 m/s. Given the long distance of 700 meters, the sound will reach the person through the steel rail first, followed by the sound traveling through the air. This phenomenon illustrates the differences in sound propagation speeds in different media.

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Kinetic Energy is a product of half the Mass times Velocity Squared. When the velocity is doubled, the Kinetic energy would go up four times. If velocity is tripled, kinetic energy would go up nine times. If velocity is increased by 1.5 times the Kinetic energy would go up by 1.5×1.5=2.25 times.

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To calculate the distance of the object from the source of sound based on the time taken for the echo, we can use the formula for distance traveled by sound:

Distance = (Speed of Sound × Time) / 2

The speed of sound in air at normal room temperature (20°C) is approximately 343 meters per second (m/s).

Given that the time taken in the echo is 5 seconds, we can plug the values into the formula:

Distance = (343 m/s × 5 s) / 2 Distance = 1715 meters / 2 Distance ≈ 857.5 meters

So, the approximate distance of the object from the source of sound is approximately 857.5 meters.

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Large Underground Xenon experiment (LUX) is located 1,510 m underground at the Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead city, South Dakota, United States.

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The Corpuscular theory of light was given by Isaac Newton. It was replaced by Huygens’ wave theory when it failed to adequately explain the diffraction, interference and polarization of light. The Huygens’ wave theory was replaced by Planck’s quantum theory and finally de-Broglie’s Dual-Theory of light replaced all previous ones.

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In the presented choices, the Fermi stands as the smallest unit of length measurement. It is equal to 10^-15 m. Comparatively, 1 Micron equals 10^-6 m, 1 Nanometer equals 10^-9 m, and 1 Angstrom equivalent to 10^-10 m. All these units are commonly used to measure minuscule distances, particularly in the realm of nanotechnology and particle physics. However, the Fermi, named after the esteemed physicist Enrico Fermi, remains the smallest.

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The motion of an object under free fall is a case of uniform acceleration. If an object is released from a height near the surface of earth, it accelerates downwards under the influence of a gravity pull with acceleration due to gravity.

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The slope of a straight line joining two points on a velocity-time graph gives the average acceleration between these two points. Depending on the sign of slope, the average acceleration can be positive or negative.