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选词填空： 1. The first experiment consists of stroking a rubber rod with some fur, and ___then____ in turn touching two small pith balls suspended from strings with the rod. The pith balls then swing apart, indicating that a repulsive force now acts between them. ___Next____, we stroke a glass rod with a silk cloth and touch two different suspended pith balls in turn with it. Once more the pith balls swing apart, indicating a repulsive force. 2. Reflection from a brick wall is diffuse, ___while____ reflection from a mirror is specular. 3. Electric force is, ___of course____, a vector quantity, with Eq. (21 – 1) giving only its magnitude. 4. Thomson was able to establish by an ingenious experiment that electrons all have the same ratio of charge to mass. ___However____, he was not able to establish that all electrons are alike. 5. The resistivities of nearly all substances vary with their temperatures. ____In general___, metals increase in resistivity with an increase in temperature ___while____ nonmetals decrease in resistivity. 6. The frequency is the number of cycles executed per unit time. ___Hence____ frequency is the reciprocal of period T. 7. But these first rubber overshoes and raincoats were all soft and sticky in summer, and unelastic in the winter when it was cold. ___In fact____, they might almost have been made of wax, only they were a bit stronger. 8. With these formulas, we can convert temperatures from one scale to the other. ___For instance____, a Fahrenheit temperature of 70oF, which id normal room temperature, on the Celsius scale is 21oC. 9. Unlike solids and liquids, gases do not have specific volumes at a particular temperature, __but_____ expand to fill their containers. The only way to change the volume of a gas is to change the capacity of its container. __However_____, even though its volume may remain the same, another property of a confined gas varies with its temperature, __namely___, the pressure it exerts on the container wal