Questions 48-50 refer to the passage below.  “Unfortunately, Americans focus more on Soviet military hardware than on limited political prestige. That is responsible for your overestimation of Soviet power, as if power in history is the same asforce of arms! What myopia and short-sightedness. There is more power in rock music, videos, blue jeans, fast food, news networks and TV satellites than in the entire Red Army.” Régis Debray, leftist French philosopher, 1986 48.  Which of the following events of the 1980s or 1990s best supported Debray’s assessment of the relative importance of cultural capital versus military power?

Questions 1-3 refer to the passage below. “Citizens, the Provisional Executive Committee of the members of the Duma, with the aid and support of the garrison of the capital and its inhabitants, has triumphed over the dark forces of the Old Régime to such an extent as to enable it to organize a more stable executive power…. The Cabinet will be guided in its actions by the following principles: Freedom of speech and press; freedom to form labor unions and to strike… The abolition of all social, religious and national restrictions. Immediate preparation for the calling of a Constituent Assembly, elected by universal and secret vote, which shall determine the form of government and draw up the Constitution for the country… Elections to be carried out on the basis of universal, direct, equal and secret suffrage. The troops that have taken part in the revolutionary movement shall not be disarmed or removed from Petrograd.” –Provisional Government, March 16, 1917   2.  The “dark forces” referred to in the passage most likely refers to

What is the approximate acceleration of a 5 kg bucket of paint that is pulled upwards with a force of 75 N? Assume this experiment takes place on Earth’s surface.

Questions 11-13 refer to the image below.    Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory, 1931 11.  The above painting is an example of which of the following developments during the early twentieth century?

A spring stretches 20 cm when a force of 30 N pulls on it. The spring constant for this spring is closest to

A white dwarf can exhibit an astonishing density of ρ ≈ 1000 kg/cm3.  If one had material from a white dwarf that was contained within a paintball of diameter D ≈ 1.8 cm, what would be its mass in kg?   Insert those values directly into the formula: M ≈ ρ x D3 / 2 , and in this instance, provide the answer without units and rounded to the nearest integer (e.g., 80.6 -> 81). 

The extra practice questions don’t count toward a student’s grade. 

Wire 2 is twice the length and has twice the cross-sectional area that of wire 1. What is the ratio R2/R1 of their resistances?

What is the resistance of 1.0 m of a solid cylindrical metal cable having a diameter of 0.40 inches and a resistivity of 1.68 × 10-8 Ω ∙ m?

Compared to the free market, the change in producer surplus from this policy equals