UCSD DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS Winter Quarter 2000
PHYSICS 8: THE PHYSICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Homework 1
(Due February 3 2000)

1. List the force which hold the following together:
a) a pencil b) a mountain c) the Earth d) the ocean water.

2. The following words and phrase have precise definitions in physics.
Please write definitions for each:
a) Force; b) Law; c) Energy; d) Conservation of Energy.

3. Name 4 devices which change energy from one form to another
and give the forms of energy.

4. Please give a 1 page summary of General relativity.




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