June 2015 Physics Regents

The one where you had to draw the field lines for the charged plates, from my understanding, were supposed to be drawn out of the positive plate into the negative one

The answer was definitely visible light (unless you stayed true to your calculated frequency)

The lines are draw directly vertical from the parallel to the negative plate.

Wait for the short answer question with the copper box, was one of the questions asking for net force or the normal force?

^If I remember correctly, part A was force of friction and part B or C was net force

I put electrical to mechanical because that’s what a motor is. Didn’t bother to read the rest of the question.

@glasshours Part C was asking for normal force or net force? I think I did normal force…

From what I remember, I thought it was first asking for weight, then force of friction, then net force. But i’m not entirely sure.

What did you guys get for the last problem in the circuit short answer? The one that asked for you to compare the Req of the series circuit to the Req of the parallel circuit. I put that they were equal. (I got 72 ohms for series and ~72.1 ohms for parallel).

The way I did was to find the total power and divide it by the total voltage which was (120V). This would give me the current in each resistor. Using the power and current for each resistance I was able to find the voltage in each resistor. And using the voltage and current in each resistor I was able to find the resistance of each resistor. This added up to 72 ohm.

People are telling me I’m wrong though and the total resistance was 744 ohms (They took the resistances they got in the parallel circuit and added them up). That does not seem right to me though :confused:

I put series is larger because there are two different formulas. For series its R1 + R2 + … etc

For parallel its 1/req = 1/R1 + 1/R2 + … and so on.

Yeah, I got series > parallel too. All you had to do was add up resistances for series, and what @littlet4lks said for parallel. This is the Regents, they’d never ask you to apply V=IR ten thousand times :stuck_out_tongue:

Teacher just posted our scores for the physics regents. I got a 94. :confused: Although phys is my worst subject by far so I wasn’t expecting all that much.

Congratulations! That’s an awesome score!

I am graduated. Even though I really like Physics, I feel sorry for you all.

Though I didn’t study at all lol, I got a 100 :smiley: