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Trivia
100

This law states that the change in entropy of a system must always be greater than or 0 for any real process

What is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?

100

The area under a force vs time graph gives this quantity

What is Impulse?

100

This scientist is known for the three laws of motion

Who is Isaac Newton?

100

The type of bond that forms between two nonmetals

What is a covalent bond?

100

This famous equation relates energy and mass?

What is E=mc^2?

200


This thermodynamic process involves no heat transfer between a system and its surroundings 

What is an isothermic process?

200

This quantity is conserved in all collisions

What is momentum?

200

This scientist measured the charge of an electron using an oil drop experiment.



Who is Robert Millikan?

200

These types of numbers define the parameters of an electron within an atom

These types of numbers define the parameters of an electron within an atom?

200

The smallest dog breed in the world

 What is chihuahua?

300


This thermodynamic process involves no heat transfer between a system and its surroundings 

What is an adiabatic process?

300

A satellite in circular orbit suddenly loses speed without changing direction. Its new path becomes this type of orbit?

(what is an elliptical orbit?)

300

This famous physicist’s brain was removed and studied by Thomas Harvey without his family’s permission.



Who is Albert Einstein?

300

The force that holds positively charged protons together in the nucleus

What is the strong force?

300

This person posed the question, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound”

Who is George Berkeley?

400

This cycle, operating between two reservoirs, sets the theoretical maximum efficiency for any heat engine.

What is the Carnot cycle?

400

A solid disk and a hoop roll down an incline without slipping. The disk reaches the bottom first because it has a smaller value of this quantity relative to its mass

What is moment of inertia?

400

This physicist’s law explains why induced currents act to resist changes in magnetic fields in electromagnetic systems.

Who is Lenz?

400

This state of matter consists of a gas of bosons at very low density and temperature

What is a Bose-Einstein condensate?

400

This social media app launched by Meta in 2023 was designed as a competitor to Twitter

What is Threads?

500

The observation that hot water freezes faster than cold water

What is the Mpemba Effect?

500

Arch bridges primarily use this type of force to support loads

What is compression?

500

This mathematician and physicist showed that every differentiable symmetry in a physical system corresponds to a conserved quantity, a result fundamental to modern theoretical physics

Who is Emmy Noether?

500

This equation relates radiation intensity emitted from matter in terms of temperature, sharing its name with a probability distribution of particles over temperature.



What is Stefan-Boltzmann law?

500

This movie had the most Academy Award nominations this year

What is Sinners?

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