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Week 1 trivia night fall 2024 UCLA SPS
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Q 21: What does SPS stand for?
Spicy Pizza Society
Student Procrastination Society
Society of Physics Students
Saturday Party Survivors
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Q 19: When was the UCLA physics department founded
1919
1921
1922
1920
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Q 6: This physicist “discovered” gravity after observing an apple fall from a tree
Niels Bohr
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Johannes Kepler
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Q 24: What does CMB stand for?
Charged Magnetic Background
Cosmic Magnetic Background
Cosmic Microwave Background
Charged Matter Background
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Q 1: What is MKSA unit for energy?
Joule (J)
Watt (W)
Ohm (Ω)
Hertz (H)
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Q 7: This physicist developed the uncertainty principle
Edwin Schrodinger
Wolfgang Pauli
Louis de Broglie
Werner Heisenberg
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Q 25: What does LASER stand for?
Light Amplification through Stimulated Electron Radiation
Linear Amplification through Stimulated Electron Radiation
Luminous Atom Stimulation and Emission of Radiation
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
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Q 16: What color do young stars appear as in the night sky?
Yellow
White
Blue
Red
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Q 17: What is a Lagrangian?
Charge density
Difference between potential and kinetic energy
A constant used in Lagrangian mechanics
The sum of potential and kinetic energy
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Q 18: Julio Frenk: SLAPS THE ROOF OF NORTH CAMPUS “THIS BOY CAN FIT SO MANY _____ ______S IN IT”
Useless Majors
English Majors
Sociology Majors
Art History Majors
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Q 13: Which constant, with a value of 6.626 * 10^-34 J·s, was used to solve the ultraviolet catastrophe?
Speed of Light ©
Boltzmann Constant (k)
Planck’s Constant (h)
Gravitational Constant (G)
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Q 2: How far is a light year?
3 × 10^8 meters per second
343 meters per second
150 million kilometers
9.46 trillion kilometers
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Q 3: Which unit is defined as one coulomb of charge passing through a point in a circuit per second?
Ampere
Tesla
Volt
Coulomb
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Q 23: What does JWST stand for?
James Webb Solar Telescope
James Webb Survey Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope
James Webb Satellite Telescope
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Q 4: The Henry, or unit of inductance, is equivalent to which combination of base SI units?
m-2⋅A−21
m2⋅s-2⋅A−2
1 kg⋅m-2⋅A2
1 kg⋅m2⋅s-2⋅A−2
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Q 15: Which constant relates the intensity of the thermal radiation emitted by a blackbody and its temperature?
ρ, resistivity
k, boltzmann’s constant
σ, the Stefan Boltzmann constant
b, Wien's displacement constant,
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Q 8: This physicist’ work on the photoelectric effect won him the nobel prize
Max Planck
Albert Einstein
Paul Dirac
Otto Hahn
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Q 5: The Planck constant has units of?
J
J⋅s
eV
J⋅s-1
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Q 14: Has value of 1.097 * 10^7 m^-1, describes the frequencies in an emission spectrum and is associated with Balm
Planck's Constant (h)
Rydberg Constant (R)
Avogadro's Number (N_A)
Gravitational Constant (G)
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Q 20: How heavy is the UCLA bruin statue?
4 tons
2 tons
1 ton
3 tons
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Q 12: About 1/137, the ratio of electrostatic to gravitational force for two particles of Planck mass interacting
h, planck's constant
γ, the lorentz factor
α, the fine structure constant
ℏ, the reduced Planck's constant
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Q 9: The physicist proposed the wave theory of matter and suggested that particles exhibit both wave and particle
Max Planck
Edwin Schrodinger
Werner Heisenberg
Louis de Broglie
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Q 10: This physicist wrote about the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics
Werner Heisenberg
Niels Bohr
Max Born
Edwin Schrodinger
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Q 11: This constant is a universal speed limit and has a value of 3.0⋅10
8
m/s
c, the speed of light
G, the gravitational constant
h, planck's constant
k, boltzmann’s constant
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Q 22: What does WIMP stand for?
Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
Weakly Interfering Massive Particle
Weakly Interacting Massive Proton
Weakly Interfering Massive Proton
