In which case would the kinetic energy of particles be increasing? (1 point) Metal is heated from room temperature to 200°C.

Metal is melted at 1,300°C.

Metal is cooled at 1,300°C.

Metal is at room temperature, 37°C.

Aboxcar traveling at 12 m/s approaches a string of 5 identical boxcars sitting stationary on the track. the moving boxcar collides and links with the stationary cars and they all move off together along the track. what is the final speed of the cars immediately after the collision? (you may take the mass of each boxcar to be 18,537 kg.)

Two polarizers are oriented at 40∘ to each other and plane-polarized light is incident on them. if only 16 percent of the light gets through both of them, what was the initial polarization direction of the incident light?

"if the pressure acting on an ideal gas at constant temperature is tripled, its volume isa) reduced to one-third.b) increased by a factor of three.c) increased by a factor of two.d) reduced to one-half"