You are called to the scene of a single motor vehicle accident where a 19-year-old male has lost control of his vehicle and hit a tree. The patient is still seated in the driver’s seat and is speaking incoherently. You are holding cervical spine control and opening the airway and notice a fruity odor on his breath. You can see a small bump on the left side of the patient’s head and a minor laceration to the forehead. The patient’s radial pulse is at 40 and respirations are irregular at 6 BPM. Which of the following should you do next after finishing your primary (initial) assessment?

You are called to the scene of an 18-year-old patient who fell off of a ladder and landed on his head. Eyes open to painful stimuli has no response to verbal questioning and withdraws from pain. Which of the following would best reflect this patient’s Glasgow Coma score?

A child wants to balance a meter stick pivoted at the 0.50-m line (in the middle).  A 3.0-kg object is hung from the 0.15-m line.  Where should the child hang a 5.0-kg object to achieve equilibrium (the meter stick oriented horizontal and motionless)?

Paramedics Washington and Brooks showed up for their shift feeling tired and decided to take a nap before doing their vehicle check. About 30 minutes into the shift, they were dispatched to a patient in seizure. The patient was a 16-year-old female in active seizure when they arrived. The crew before them had used all the Valium and left them a note to replace it, subsequently, the paramedics had no medication to administer to the patient. Ultimately, the seizure stopped and the patient suffered no apparent adverse consequences. The family still filed a lawsuit for negligence of the crew. Which of the following elements to establish negligence is missing in this case?

A 0.085-kg ball moving to the right with a speed of 15 m/s is struck by a racket, causing it to move to the left with a speed of 15 m/s.  If the ball remains in contact with the racquet for 0.025 s, what is the magnitude of the average force exerted on the ball?

How much power is needed to lift a 55-kg student vertically upward at a constant speed of 0.44 m/s?

A 75-kg skater begins a spin with an angular speed of 2.0 rad/s. By changing the position of his arms, the skater decreases his moment of inertia to one-fifth of its initial value. What is the skater’s final angular speed?

A 55-kg skater begins a spin with an angular speed of 4.0 rad/s. By changing the position of her arms, the skater decreases her moment of inertia to one-fourth of its initial value. What is the skater’s final angular speed?

A spinning star begins to collapse under its own gravitational pull.  Which one of the following occurs as the star becomes smaller?

A child wants to balance a meter stick pivoted at the 0.50-m line (in the middle).  A 3.0-kg object is hung from the 0.25-m line.  Where should the child hang a 5.0-kg object to achieve equilibrium (the meter stick oriented horizontal and motionless)?