Your cell phone typically consumes about 390 mW of power when you text a friend. If the phone is operated using a lithium-ion battery with a voltage of 3.5 V, what is the current flowing through the cell-phone circuitry under these circumstances?

As a car drives with its tires rolling freely without any slippage, the type of friction acting between the tires and the road is 100) a) static friction. b) kinetic friction. c) a combination of static and kinetic friction. d) neither static nor kinetic friction, but some other type of friction. e) it is impossible to tell what type of friction acts in this situation.

Scout feels ill one day before school. her mother puts a thermometer in her mouth and the temperature begins to climb to 100°f. what is happening between the cooler thermometer and scout's body? a) scout's body is applying a force to the particles in the thermometer. b) kinetic energy is being transferred from her mouth to the thermometer. c) potential energy is being lost by the thermometer and gained by scout's body. d) the potential energy stored in foods is converted to mechanical energy to raise the mercury in the thermometer.

Gasoline comes from petroleum, which is made from ancient living things. petroleum, therefore, contains a type of energy. a. heat b. nuclear c. biological d. chemical potential