Module 5
For a projectile in flight,
horizontal acceleration is: _______
vertical acceleration is: _______
horizontal acceleration is zero
vertical acceleration is g.
What links Maxwell, Huygens, Schrodinger and De Broglie?
Waves
Put these events in order:
- Invention of microwave oven
- Romer's measurement of the speed of light
- Chocolate arrives in Europe
- Stravinsky's opera: The Rake's Progress
1500s: Chocolate arrives in Europe
1676: Romer measures speed of light
1947: Microwave oven invented
1951: The Rake's Progress
Name all (and only all) positively charged antiquarks.
anti down, anti strange, anti bottom (aka anti beauty)
How many students did we start Year 11 with in our class?
13
What is the formula for gravitational potential energy?
U = -GMm/r
An electric field is...
... a region of space where a charged particle experiences a force.
The word 'corpuscle' means
little body
Which gauge boson mediates the strong force?
gluon
Which student in this class has the least consistent seating?
Sky
When a projectile launches at a lower height than it lands, what is the relationship between launch angle and landing angle?
The landing angle is smaller than the launch angle.
What is Ampere's Law?
Parallel current-carrying conductors experience a force.
Which four scientists have names that appear in the names of Maxwell's four famous equations?
Gauss, Faraday, Ampere, Maxwell
Muons are members of which category of particle in the Standard Model? Other members include tau neutrinos.
Leptons
Whose parents have had at least one parent-teacher meeting standing up?
Natalie
What is Kepler's first law of planetary motion?
Planets orbit in elliptical paths, with the Sun at one of the foci.
What do AC motors use to ensure the coil rotates in a constant direction?
AC
According to Huygens, light can be described in terms of...
the production and interaction of wavelets.
Which feature of a stellar spectrum indicates a star's rotational velocity?
Which prop was used to explain particle accelerators
A toy cow
What is the typical escape velocity from Earth?
11.2 km/s
Eddy currents are also known as:
A. Lenz's currents
B. Faraday's currents
C. Joule's currents
D. Foucault's currents
D. Foucault's currents.
According to modern science, light is...
a quantum phenomenon that exhibits both wave and particle like behaviour.
State all three of Bohr's postulates.
Electrons orbit in fixed states.
Angular momentum is quantised.
Electrons move up or down between fixed levels to absorb or emit energy in the form of light.
Which two musicians/groups were used to highlight the difference between classical physics and quantum physics?
Beethoven (classical) and Kraftwerk (quantum)