Physics Trivia

These

100

Light doesn't only act as a wave, but it also acts as a ?

What is a Photon (Particle)

200

This scientists turned down the presidency of israel.

Who is Einstein?

300

This describes a quantity that has both direction and magnitude.

What is a vector quantity?

400

This is what a force acting on an object (not in equilibrium) causes it to do.

What is accelerate?

500

The only person to win the Nobel prize in two different scientific distinctions?

Who is Marie Curie?

Questions

100

True or False: Scientists actually use remote-controlled drones called "SnotBots" to fly through whale blowholes and catch their snot for health checks.

What is True?

200

What metal melts at 86 degrees farenheit?

What is Gallium?

300

This is the SI unit for electrical resistance.

What is the ohm?

400

This is the bending of light around a small object.

What is diffraction?

500

was a brilliant German chemist whose inventions both feed half the human population and earned him the title "father of chemical warfare

Who is Fritz Haber?

Are

100

True or False: Human fingernails and hair continue to grow for several days after a person dies.

What is False? (Urban legend, skin contracts making it appear longer)

200

According to the quantum theory of light, the energy of light is carried in discrete units called these.

What are photons?

300

What is it called when a solid changes directly into a gas?

What is sublimation?

400

What animal kills the most humans each year?

What is a mosquito?

500

What does DNA stand for?

What is deoxyribonucleic acid?

All

100

This is one of the three main types of heat transfer.

What is conduction, or convection, or radiation?

200

How many bones do sharks have?

What is Zero?

300

This is described by the equation ______ = 1/2 m*v^2.

What is kinetic energy?

400

This is the name of the law relating potential difference (V) to current (I) and resistance (R), or V = IR.

What is Ohm's Law?

500

What do you call a group of flamingos?

What is a flamboyance?

Random!

100

What country has the most tornadoes?

What is the United States?

200

Magnetic fields are caused by moving ______.

What are moving charges (electrons ok)?

300

What element is a diamond composed of?

What is Carbon?

400

A car moving at a speed of 8.0 m/s enters a highway and accelerates at a rate of 3.0 m/s^2. How fast will the car be moving after it has accelerated for 56 m?

What is 20. m/s? (use vf^2 = vi^2 + 2ad)

500

What color is the sunset on Mars?

What is blue?