What are the two types of energy? - ️️Potential and kinetic
What are three things necessary for the transmission and reception of sound? - ️️Source, medium for carrying the sound, and the detector
What determines the mechanical advantage of a block and tackle? - ️️The number of weight...
Aviation Physics 99 Review Questions
With Answers
What are the two types of energy? - ✔ ✔ Potential and kinetic
What are three things necessary for the transmission and reception of sound? - ✔ ✔ Source,
medium for carrying the sound, and the detector
What determines the mechanical advantage of a block and tackle? - ✔ ✔ The number of weight
supporting ropes
What determines the pitch of sound? - ✔ ✔ By the vibrations or the sounding source
What determines the pressure exerted at the bottom of a colum of a liquid? - ✔ ✔ by the height of
the liquid and not by the container
What device is used to measure the specific gravity of a liquid? - ✔ ✔ a hydrometer
What direction would it take more work to move an object? Horizontally or vertically? - ✔ ✔
Vertically
What gear system has an extremely high mechanical advantage? - ✔ ✔ The worm gear
What happens to the density of the atmosphere with an increase in alitude? - ✔ ✔ It would remain
fairly constant
What is a fluid? - ✔ ✔ Any substance that is able to flow if its not in some way confined or restricted
What is Absolute Humidity? - ✔ ✔ Absolute humidity is the actual amount of the water
vapor in a mixture of air and water.
What is absolute pressure equal to? - ✔ ✔ gauge pressure plus atmospheric pressure
What is absolute zero? - ✔ ✔ The lowest temperature that is theoretically possible at which the
motion of particles that constitues heat would be minimal
what is acceleration? - ✔ ✔ the increase in the rate of motion over a period of time
What is another name for an aneroid barometer? - ✔ ✔ Altimeter
What are 3 kinds of friction? - ✔ ✔ Static Friction
, Sliding Friction
Rolling Friction
What are bevel gears used for? - ✔ ✔ to change the plane of rotation
What are the 3 classifications of potential energy? - ✔ ✔ that due to position
that due to distortion of an elastic body
that which produces work through chemical action
What are the 3 method of heat transfer? - ✔ ✔ Conduction
Convection
Radiation
What are the four temperature scales? - ✔ ✔ Centigrade, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, and Rankine
What are the six characteristics of matter? - ✔ ✔ Mass and weight
Attraction
Porosity
Impenetrability
Density
Specific Gravity
What are the six simple machine? - ✔ ✔ lever
pulley
wheel and axel
inclined plane
screw
gear
what are the three basic parts of any lever? - ✔ ✔ Fulcrum
Force or effort
resistance
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