Sadi Carnot
Sadi Carnot's nickname.
What is the Father of Thermodynamics?
Sound consists of ________ that travel through the air.
What are sound waves / waves?
Sir before his name is for this reason.
What is he was knighted?
Being able to accurately judge the distance an object is from your body.
What is depth perception?
The biggest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is an example of a heat engine.
What is a car / automobile?
The Kaleidophone was named after this...
What is a Kaleidoscope?
Sir Charles Wheatstone was right about this.
What is that is does take some time? (He was just wrong about how long)
Maintaining safe distances between objects and obstacles while driving is an example of this.
What is depth perception?
Electricity is a flow of tiny particles called...
What are electrons?
Heat engines differ from steam engines in this way.
What is that heat engines don't utilize steam and run solely off the heat's motion based on a difference in temperature?
Kaleidophone.
What is a sound-visualization system?
Sir Charles Wheatstone was wrong about this.
What is how fast the speed of electricity actually is?
The eye that provides the primary visual input and that the brain relies on more for tasks such as focusing and depth perception.
What is the dominant eye?
There are this many Continents.
What is 7?
The branch of science that studies how heat energy relates to other forms of energy.
What is thermodynamics?
Sir Charles Wheatstone wanted to come up with a way to.....
What is to "see sound"?
An electrical circuit refined by Sir Charles Wheatstone used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit.
What is the "Wheatstone bridge"?
Vision that occurs with both eyes at the same time.
What is binocular vision?
These two countries border the USA.
What is Canada and Mexico?
Sadi Carnot's father's nickname.
What is "the great Carnot"?
These musical instruments were invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone.
What is the harmonica and concertina?
Wheatstone was wrong about the speed of electricity (he predicted 288,000 miles per second), but his discoveries were important because they led to this.
What is that it led to more discovery related to the speed of electricity (electric telegraph)?
Good depth perception requires __________ vision.
What is binocular?
The goal in basketball is to put the ball through a hoop. The very first basketball hoops were made with this.
What is a peach basket?