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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 is suction referred to in the act of flying?
(a) Lift.
(b) Floating.
(c) Sinking.
(d) Glide.

2. What causes sideways movements of a ship?
(a) Thrusters and stabilizers.
(b) Rods.
(c) Cams.
(d) Jone's principle.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the inclined plane do?

2. How does a ship vary in density?

3. How does a wedge move an object up an inclined plane?

4. What is applied to a lever to make it move?

5. What happens if the edges of the two wheels touch?

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