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| What country has the largest reserve of coal? |
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| The main energy transformation involved in using an automobile powered by internal combustion is ______ to _______. |
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| ______ is a renewable resource. |
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| Natural gas is a _______ resource. |
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| To travel 280 miles in 4 hours, you'd have to travel at |
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| Which is more dependent on the price of a barrel of oil: a country's reserves or resources? |
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| What is true to the best of our knowledge? |
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| "Energy is neither created nor destroyed." |
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| What is the weight of 20 gallons of water (at 8.4lbs per gallon)? |
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| An electric heater has a power rating of 3000 watts. How much energy does it consume in 3 minutes (convert to seconds)? (E = p x t) |
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| What is the mass of an object if a 100 N force on it causes a 40 m/s^2 acceleration? (F = m x a) |
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| If a Frisbee weighs 0.175 kg and is traveling at 3 m/s, what is it's kinetic energy? (KE= 1/2mv^2) |
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| What is the potential energy of a 1000 kg boulder that is raised 2 meters off the ground? (PE=mgh) |
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| What force is required to cause a 10kg object to accelerate at 5 m/s^2? (F=ma) |
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| Marx and Engels wrote during the ___ century. |
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| Statements derived from rules of formal logic and other statements whose truth-value can be known independently of sense experience are __________ _________. |
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| 100 Gigabytes is equal to |
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| One of the main industries the Luddites came from was |
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| Scientific advances, taken together, tend to ______ total factor productivity. |
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| What is most related to the Guns v Butter metaphor? |
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| Production-Possibility Frontier. |
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| Based on James Watts' improvements to the steam engine, the industrial revolution can be considered to begin in |
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| Based on the essay we read, explain the historical context of this quote: "The Governor General reported 1834-1835, 'The misery hardly finds a parallel in the history of commerce. The bones of the cotton weavers are bleaching the plains of India." |
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| Mechanization and technological advancement were rapidly increasing. Labor from workers in textile mills was becoming unneeded considering work could be done faster and easier with this new technology. |
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| What boils off at the lowest temp in an oil refinery? |
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| What time is associated with the highest electricity demand? |
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| What subatomic particle is negatively charged? |
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| Atomic number is equal to |
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| True or False? Solar power concentrators are photovoltaic devices. |
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| Imagine an isolated proton and an isolated electron were brought close. What happens? |
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| What solar cells have no crystalline structure? |
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| What form of energy has the most day to day changes in power output? |
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| What is the physical principle that underlies photovoltaic tech? |
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| Name 3 examples of fossil fuels. |
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| Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas. |
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| The reservoir created by a dam contains |
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| gravitational potential energy. |
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| What particles make up an atom's nucleus? |
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| neutrons, protons, and electrons |
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| Name one instance of nuclear fusion. |
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| Helium and hydrogen atoms power the sun using nuclear fusion. |
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| What emissions, if any, are produced by wind energy? |
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| Wind power produces no emissions. |
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| Where is spent nuclear fuel stored? |
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