Potions and Alchemy
(Chemistry!)
(Chemistry!)
A science bowl member is plotting temperature vs time while they are heating some water to make instant ramen. This is why the heating curve reaches a plateau at 100 degrees Celsius.
What is because energy is required to break the hydrogen bonds between water molecules?
The number of chambers in a fish heart.
What is 2?
Daily Double!
The sea in the North Atlantic ocean named for a genus of brown seaweed and comprised of warm, clear, nutrient-poor surface water.
What is the Sargasso Sea?
An ideal gas (Here some air in a horse's lung) expands from 5 liters to 10 liters under a constant pressure of 2.5 bars. This is the amount of work in Joules that is done.
The –4/3 power of –27
What is 1/81?
The definition of molality.
What is moles of solute per kilogram of solvent?
The type of joints sutures are.
What is immovable?
The cycles that refers to changes in Earth's orbital precession, eccentricity, and obliquity.
What are the Milankovitch cycles?
A horse has built an LC circuit, but decides to modify it, and replaces the inductor with one with four times as many turns. This is the factor that the resonant frequency is multiplied by as a result of the change.
What is 1/4?
A triangle has two sides of lengths 38 and 54. This is the largest possible integer length of the third side.
What is 91?
The longest bond length out of the following four bond types: C-H, C triple bond C, C=C, C-C.
What is a C-C bond?
The name of older, nonfunctional xylem in a tree.
What is heartwood? (or hearbreak :eyes:)
A science bowl member has recently discovered a spherical elliptical galaxy, named the sweatshirt galaxy because they were wearing a scibowl hoodie when they discovered it. This is the Hubble classification that that galaxy should have.
What is E0?
A horse is riding a rocket to try to escape Earth's gravitational field, and is currently travelling at 11.2km/s, which is escape velocity on Earth. Suddenly, the Earth's density increases by a factor of 100. This is the new speed the horse's rocket needs to travel at if they want to escape.
What is 112 km/s?
The limit as x approaches 0 of the fraction with numerator e^x – 1 and denominator x^5
The new volume of a a gas parcel that had a volume of 4 liters and a pressure of 2 pascals, and the pressure has been doubled.
What is 2 liters?
The protein that calcium ions bind to that leads to muscle contraction in a strained human muscle.
What is Troponin?
The mineral with the highest metamorphic grade out of these four minerals: Staurolite, Muscovite, Garnet, Chlorite.
What is Staurolite?
Daily Double!
The four fundamental forces (and the four fundamental horses).
What are gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force?
or war, famine, pestilence, and death
The first five terms in the arithmetic sequence with 1st term 4 and 20th term 156.
What is 4, 12, 20, 28, and 36?
The number of distinct carbon signals are in the 13C NMR spectrum for ethyl isobutyl ether, also known as 1-ethoxy-2-methylpropane.
What is 5?
The brain region primarily responsible for coordinating basic reflexes like swallowing and vomiting
What is the Medulla Oblongata? (Not the hypothalmus :(()
The track that young protostars, including T-Tauri stars, evolve along to reach the main sequence.
What is the Hayashi track?
Instead of Forces with Horses, this question is about Gooses with Mooses. Assume g=10.
A goose with mass 2 kg starts from 10 meters above the ground, jumps and runs at a velocity of 10 meters/s linearly and collides perfectly elastically with a stationary moose on the ground of mass 5kg. Energy is conserved. What is total momentum and kinetic energy after the collision?
What is 20 and 100?
The indefinite integral of 3 sine x + 5 cosine x, dx.
What is –3 cos x + 5 sin x + C?