Final answer:
It is true that services cannot be touched or smelled; they are intangible. The high-voltage wires are typically not insulated, wave-particle duality doesn't apply to macroscopic objects, magnetic fields can harm credit card strips, polarization can occur without direct contact, and gravity can bend light.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement 'Services can't be touched, smelled, etc.' is true. Services are intangible, which means they cannot be perceived through the physical senses like touch or smell. For example, you cannot touch or smell a legal consultation, an online education class, or a haircut before it happens, though you can experience the outcomes of these services. Services are differentiated from goods, which are tangible and can be interacted with physically.
Responses to the Statements:
- True or false-The high-voltage wires that you see connected to tall metal-frame towers are held aloft by insulating connectors, and these wires are wrapped in an insulating material. b. false. High-voltage wires are typically not covered in insulating materials because they operate at such high voltages that covering them would be impractical and extremely expensive. They are indeed held by insulators, but the wires themselves are usually bare.
- True or false-wave-particle duality exists for objects on the macroscopic scale. a. false. Wave-particle duality is a concept in quantum mechanics that applies to microscopic particles like electrons and photons, not to objects on the macroscopic scale.
- True or false-It is not recommended to place credit cards with magnetic strips near permanent magnets. b. true. Magnetic fields can demagnetize the strip on your credit card, making it unusable.
- True or false Charging an object by polarization requires touching it with an object carrying excess charge. b. false. Polarization can occur without direct contact; a charged object brought near a neutral object can cause electrons within the neutral object to rearrange due to the electric field, resulting in polarization.
- The notion of separate spheres and the Cult of Domesticity allowed the American middle class to distinguish themselves as separate from and superior to the working class. a. True. This ideology emerged in the 19th century and reinforced the division of labor based on gender, with women being associated with the private sphere of the home.
- A particle, such as light, that behaves as a particle or a wave and has no rest mass, can have its path bent by gravity. a. True. According to General Relativity, gravity can affect the path of light, despite it having no rest mass.