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Historical Figures and Contemporary Physics Quiz
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What claims that all laws of physics are the same in inertial frames? (Einstein discovery)
Mass Energy Equivalence
Photoeclectric effect
Special Relativity
Quantum Theory
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Who showed that water temperature could go up by applying a flame/doing mechanical work on it?
Niels Bohr
Max Planck
Lord Kelvin
James Joule
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What is Thomas Young famous for creating?
Electric Cords
Telephone
Double Slit Experiment
Pendulum
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What is the shift in wavelength and frequency in sound as a source moves closer/further away?
Big Bang Theory
Law of Moving Objects
Sheldon's Theory
Doppler Effect
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What experiment by Ernest Rutherford fired alpha particles at a thing pice of gold foil?
Gold Foil Experiment
Platinum Lab
Alpha Particle test
Gold Particle Experiment
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What is a complec single circuit consisting of many miniaturized components?
Microprocesser
Semi conductor
Transitor
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What discovery made J.J Thompson famous?
Electron
Gravity
Electromagnetic Waves
Proton
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Who founded the Quantum Theory?
James Joule
Galileo
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
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Which is a material that can act as a conductor or insulator
Transitor
Gold
Semiconductor
Superconductor
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The mathematics of Electromagnetic waves were introduced by..?
James Max Clerkwellt
James Max Clerk
James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell Clerk James
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What is Coulomb's Law?
charges of the same sign attract
protons move at equal speed
two charges at a distance will attract/repel each other
V=IR
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What hypothesizes that elementary particles making up matter are liner oscillations?
Special Relativity
String Theory
Chaos Theory
Astrophysics
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What is the science of celestial objects?
Geography
Chaos theory
Astrophysics
Dark Matter
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What is a material that has zero electrical resistance when below critical temperature?
Semiconductor
Superconductivity
Microprocessor
Transitor
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What is the mathematical theory that attempts to explain the behavior of complex systems
Newtonian Theory
String Theory
Superconductivity
Chaos Theory
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What is Isaac Newton's 2nd Law of Motion?
two charges at a distance will attract/repel each other
two masses at a distance apart attract each other
A modification of Galileo's "principle of inertia"
acc. of an object is proportional to the force put on object
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What law dictates the direction of an induced current?
Lens's
Lewis's
Lenz's
Ohm's
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Who is Galileo Galilei?
Discovered "x=(1/2)gt^2
Wrote Bohemian Rhapsody
Discovered Principle of inertia
Discovered Laws of Motion
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James Watt developed the concept of what?
God
steam engines
electricity
Power
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What is this?
Prisoner
Doppler effect
Double Slit Experiment
Zebra
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Ohm's Law measures what?
I=VR
current, resistance, voltage
protons
amplitude
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What is the form of Matter that cannot be seen with telescopes, accounting for missing mass?
Electrons
Iron
Dark Matter
Gold Foil Matter
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Who created the planetary model of the atom?
Einstein
Heinrich Lenz
Niels Bohr
Thomas Young
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What toolf developed by Albert Michelson and Ed Morley detects the motion of the Earth?
Interferometer
Strainmeter
Double Slit Projector
Transitor
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Which of these is
not
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
lines from central body to orbiting object are equal in time
all planets orbit at the same speed
Planetary motion is elliptical
square of the period is proportional to the radius of orbit
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Who developed the concept of absolute zero and its temperature scale
Lord Kelvin
J.J Thompson
Cornwall Celsius
Calvin Farenhide
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Who developed the principles of Electromagnetic Induction?
Michael Faraday
Michael Daly
Thomas Young
Heinrich Lenz
