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How do electromagnets work?
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Which is heavier an equal volume water or gasoline?
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What would happen if there was no electricity?
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How many gallons are in a cubic gallon?
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How many pounds does one gallon of water weigh?
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How much does a gallon of ice weigh?
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How does a solid state relay work?
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What are wavefronts?
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What is time?
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How does the elevation and air pressure affect the boiling point of water?
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What instrument is used to measure volume?
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What is the weight of 10 liters of Alum?
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Why is it when you suddenly stop a car people and packages fly forward a helium balloon inside the car goes backwards?
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How many nuclear bombs were built in world war 2?
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How much does one gallon of oil weigh?
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How old is the Earth?
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What are the names and uses of the various laboratory tools?
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How much does one gallon of diesel fuel weigh?
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How much does automotive oil weigh?
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Why haven't chemists created a periodic table of compounds?
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What is the proper formula used to calculate acceleration?
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How many grams are equal to one cubic centimeter?
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What instrument is used to find mass?
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How many grams does a teaspoon of oil weigh?
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How many quarters would it take to weigh one pound?
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How many square feet are there in a room that measures 15 feet 1 inch by 10 feet 5 inches?
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How much does ice weigh?
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What is neutral buoyancy?
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Does sound travel better through solid liquid or gas?
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What was the first man-made object in space?
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What is the measure of the force of gravity on an object?
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When a radar gun says the pitch is 90 miles per hour at what point in the ball's travel to home plate is the radar gun measuring the velocity?
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What are independent and dependent variables in science?
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What are the functions of newton scale?
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What is Ohm's law?
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What are the laws of physics?
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What is the formula for calculating the volume of a hexagonal shape?
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Where might eletrostatic charge be a hazard?
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Can density be used to identify a substance?
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How do you make a weight scale?
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Does sunlight reflected off a mirror increase the temperature of the sun-rays?
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How much pressure can an egg take?
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What is the charge and location and mass of a proton and a neutron and an electron in the atom?
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How do airplanes fly?
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How much does a gallon of antifreeze weigh?
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How is radiation emitted from the body?
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What is critical speed of steam turbine?
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What is the relation between a ton and a kilocalorie?
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Does a gallon of water weigh more than a gallon of beer?
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Do peanuts explode in lemonade?
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What is the force called when an object such as a Hot Wheels car performs a loop on a looped track and generates force against the surface?
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How fast do things fall?
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How many pounds of ice equal one gallon of water?
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What are the steps to the scientific notation?
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What is the origin of all the large moons around the Jovian planets?
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Give one advantage of a scanning electron microscope over a transmission electron microscope?
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Does electromagnetic flux flow through wood?
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How much pressure will a 300-gallon water tank supply with an elevation of 30 feet?
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How can light be defined in simplest form?
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How is Specific Gravity defined?
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What type of energy does a ball have when it is at the top of a ramp?
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What is the retention of heat from the sunlight called?
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What is a neutron?
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How much does sea salt weigh per cubic foot?
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What would happen if a disk one light second in circumference were to spin at 60 RPM?
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How is energy stored in the dunking bird?
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Why do people run before jumping instead of simply jumping in place?
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What is amplitude?
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What is before Alpha and after Omega?
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What comes before Alpha?
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