Mechanical Comprehension – Test 4

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This subtest has 16 questions and a time limit of 20 minutes

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What is the most compact object known—outside of a black hole itself?

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What is the reciprocal of the bulk modulus?

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What is the circular motion of the pole of the axis of a spinning object around another axis due to a torque?

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What is the pressure of one atmosphere, and serves as a reference level for pressure?

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What law states that every planet moves along an ellipse, with the Sun located at a focus of the ellipse?

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What is the name for the high tide created when the Moon, the Sun, and Earth are along one line?

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What type of torque on a body is caused by its weight; and occurs when the center of gravity of the body is not located on the axis of rotation?

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What kind of graph shows the relationship between stress and strain, characteristic of a material?

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What is the vector sum of the centripetal acceleration vector and the tangential acceleration vector?

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What is the cross product of a force and a lever arm to a given axis?

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What is the time required for a satellite to complete one orbit?

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What causes mass to become so dense, that it collapses in on itself, creating a singularity at the center surround by an event horizon?

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What is the point where the weight vector is attached?

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What is the behavior in which material deforms irreversibly, and does not go back to its original shape and size when load is removed and stress vanishes?

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What is the stress value beyond which material no longer behaves elastically and becomes permanently deformed?

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What kind of strain occurs when forces are contracting an object, causing its shortening?

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