Is361 Final Exam Review Flashcards Correctly Answered Graded A+ 2024/2025

How did they figure out the earth was round? {Ans: Elipses, follow a curved path}Standing waves are produced by the superposition of two waves with... {Ans: The same amplitude and frequency, and opposite propagation directions}Describe the meaning of force {Ans: A body exerts a force on another body when the first body causes the second body to accelerate}A book is given a brief shove along a tabletop and released so it slides a short distance and comes to rest. According to Aristotle it stopped because {Ans: It's natural motion is to come to rest}T/F In celestial mechanics an orbital resonance may reveal itself when two (or more) bodies have orbital periods that are related by ratio of two small integers {Ans: True}A book is given a brief shove along a tabletop and released so it slides a short distance and comes to rest. According to Galileo, it stopped because {Ans: Of friction}There are no known exceptions to {Ans: The law of conservation of energy}What level of hertz does sound have to go below to be known as a rhythm instead of a tone? {Ans: 16-20hz}Revolving around a central object twice as fast