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A battery in a large flashlight produces a current of 2 amperes in a light bulb that has a resistance of 3 ohms. What is the voltage of the battery? (Type your final answer with units in the box below. Show your equation and work on your scratch paper, or include it in the box below.)

Using a lever to move a rock reduces the force a person must exert, while keeping the work done on the rock the same. 

Which of the following is not an example of potential energy?

An aluminum wing on a plane is 38 m long when the temperature is 20oC. At what temperature (in oC) would the wing be 0.04 m shorter? Give your answer to one decimal place. Aluminum has a coefficient of linear expansion of 0.000025 per degree Celsius. (Hint: You are being asked for a temperature, not a temperature change.) (Type your final answer with units in the box below. Show your equation and work on your scratch paper, or include it in the box below.)

The time interval during which a nucleus has a 50% probability of decaying is its

Consider a situation where two moving objects collide, stick to each other, and move off together. Kinetic energy is not conserved, but momentum is conserved.

A car and driver have a total mass of 945 kg.  While rounding a curve on a flat road at a speed of 29 m/s, the net force acting on the car and driver is determined to be 56,767.5 N.  The radius of the curve is __________. (Type your final answer with units in the box below. Show your equation and work on your scratch paper, or include it in the box below.)

A 100 rad exposure is equivalent to:

​ Assume a two-country world: Country A and Country B. Which of the following is correct about purchasing power parity (PPP) as related to these two countries?

If a firm is hedging payables with futures contracts, it may end up paying more for the payables than it would have had it remained unhedged if the foreign currency depreciates.