Life and Times
People who discovered..
Guess the Law
GRE Prep
Thought Experiments
100
Einstein's profession (hint: not physicist)
What is a patent clerk?
100
General Relativity
Einstein
100
Fg = G m1m2 / (r2)
What is Newtons Universal Law of Gravitation?
100
An object is thrown horizontally from the open
window of a building. If the initial speed of the
object is 20 m/s and it hits the ground 2.0 s later,
from what height was it thrown? (Neglect air
resistance and assume the ground is level.)
What is 19.6 m?
100
The kitty in a box that may be dead, or alive or both?!
What is Schrodinger's Cat?
200
The software engineer at NASA that hand wrote the code nessecary for the Apollo Space Program
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
200
An increase in wavelength of rays when they are scattered
Hint: (called the _____ effect)
Arthur Compton
200
What is the Time Independent Schrodinger Equation?
200
A resistor in a circuit dissipates energy at a
rate of 1 W. If the voltage across the resistor
is doubled, what will be the new rate of energy
dissipation?
What is 4 W?
200
The thought experiment "Galileo's Balls" was crucial in the relization that acceleration due to gravity does not depend on ____.
What is mass?
300
Descartes' profession (hint: not mathematician)
What is a soldier?
300
the Big Bang
Georges Lemaître
300
This law arises from the kinetic pressure of gas molecules colliding with the walls of a container in accordance with Newton's Laws
What is the Ideal Gas Law?
300
De Broglie hypothesized that the linear
momentum and wavelength of a free massive
particle are related by which
constant?
What is Planks Constant?
300
One of Zeno's paradoxes that disproves the idea that all things are discreet
What is the Dichotomy Paradox?
400
Crime that Galileo was put under house arrest for
What is heresy?
400
The doulbe helix structure of DNA
Rosalind Franklin (with honorable mentions James Watson and Francis Crick)
400
The law that any isolated macroscopic system will be found in the state of greatest multiplicity except for fluctuations that are too small to measure
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
400
Unpolarized light is incident on a pair of ideal
linear polarizers whose transmission axes make
an angle of 45 degrees with each other. The transmitted
light intensity through both polarizers is what
percentage of the incident intensity?
What is 25%?
400
The imaginary creature created by Maxwell to contradict the second law of Thermo.
What is Maxwell's Demon?
500
Eratosthenes, a librarian of the Library of Alexandria, was gifted the nickname ____ by his rivals because he was always second best at everything.
What is Beta?
500
While its debated whether it's been invented or discovered,
inetegral calculus' method of exhaustion
Archimedes
500
used to describe the entropy of a monotomic ideal gas
What is the Sakur-Tetrode equation?
500
A thermodynamic system, initially at absolute
temperature T1 , contains a mass m of water
with specific heat capacity c. Heat is added
until the temperature rises to T2 . The change
in entropy of the water is..
What is m*c*ln( T2 / T1)?
500
The mythical being that represented determinism; it could predict the future from knowing all the initial conditions of the present.
What is Laplace's Demon?