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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Harnassing the Elements, Introduction, Floating, Flying and Pressure Power, pp.91-141.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one have to understand in order to understand the way things work?
(a) The reason something is made.
(b) The underlying principle.
(c) The terms of physics.
(d) The function of something.

2. What is the principle that states energy is neither created nor destroyed?
(a) The principle of energy change.
(b) The principle of the conservation of energy.
(c) The principle of energy gain.
(d) The principle of energy loss.

3. What does the Mechanics of Movement explore?
(a) How pulleys can create energy.
(b) How the movement of anything can be either a net gain or net loss of energy.
(c) How the conservation of energy plays into movement, force, and effort.
(d) How pulleys ultimately lose energy that can never be regained.

4. Under normal circumstances, what force(s) does a molecule possess?
(a) The force of electron splitting.
(b) The force to overcome inertia.
(c) An attracting force and a repelling force.
(d) The force of energy times matter.

5. What is the most common form of inclined plane found in machines?
(a) The rocker.
(b) The rods.
(c) The pully.
(d) The wedge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is suction referred to in the act of flying?

2. What are small propellers mounted in the base of a ship's hull?

3. What is a substance that contains only one type of atom?

4. What is a fulcrum?

5. What is a wheel and rod attacked by a hinge?

(see the answer key)

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