1.

a)What does the author feels is music? What do you considered tobe music?

b)How does surround sound work?

c)Does it depend where you are in a room for surround sound towork?

d)Why can a sub-woofer be placed almost anywhere in a room?

e)What is binaural sound? On what classic album did Pink Floyduse extensive use of binaural sound effects   to put” TheLunatic inside your head?”

f)How does bone conduction allow sound to be heard?

g)What is a cochlear implant? What “Culture” was changed becauseof it, and what is Audism?

2.

a)You have a grandfather clock you have inherited. It currentlyis not working.

b)You check that the clock is working, and your push thependulum to start the clock and hear the distinctive tick tock asit swings back and forth. Yet when you come back a half hour later,the pendulum is not moving. What reason could you give for this andhow could you fix them?

c) What is Oscillation, and how can that be used to keeptime?

d)How are a tuning fork and a quartz stone similar?

3

a. How does Static Friction work in Velcro?

b. How Sliding Friction work in Velcro?

4.

a) How does a moving wheel have both translational androtational movement?

b) How does an automatic transmission sense when to changegears? How is this determined in a manual transmission vehicle?

c) If you forget to put the lug nuts on a tire and the tirecomes off, what does gyroscopic rotation make the tire do?

d) Why would a moving car continue to drive if it lost awheel?

e) Why do some vehicles have locking hubs to engage 4 wheeldrive?

5. You’re a pilot for the Navy. For your airplane to be able tolift itself off the ground, it must be traveling forward with aspeed of 208 km/h (130 mph).

a) The force exerted by the jet engine on the airplane causes itto accelerate down the runway. How long must the runway be for theairplane to reach its takeoff speed if the jet accelerates at arate of 2 mile per second?

b) How does a helicopter fly that allows it to land in a smallerspace then a jet?

c) Why do aircraft carriers use more jets than helicopter?

d) What is a sonic boom, and what causes it?