Neurotic Neuroscience
The ____ effect describes why 90% of driver consider themselves "above average"
a) Kunning-Druger Effect
b) Kaku-Druler Effect
c) Dunning-Kruger Effect
d) Drowning-Chrysler Effect
e) Dramatic-Kalor Efffect
c) Dunning-Kruger Effect
Name one of the inventors of the current industrial procedure for ammonia production
a) Fritz Haber
b) Walter White
c) Robert Bunsen
d) William Ramsay
a) Fritz Haber
Who first postulated the wave nature of electrons and all matter?
a) Louis de Broglie
b) Niels Bohr
c) Max Planck
d) Werner Heisenberg
e) Erwin Schrodinger
a) Louis de Broglie
What is the angular velocity of the Earth about its axis?
a) 365 days
b) 365 days/year
c) 2pi/year
d) 2pi/day
e) pi/86400s
d) 2pi/day
What is the derivative of tan(x)?
a) log |sec x|
b) sec^2(x)
c) cosec^2(x)
d) cotan^2(x)
b) sec^2(x)
Which part of the brain is involved in vision?
a) Temporal Lobe
b) Prefrontal Cortex
c) Optical lobe
d) White Matter
e) Occipital lobe
e) Occipital lobe
Give the chemical formula of the smallest carboxylic acid.
a) CHO2
b) H2O
c) CH4
d) CH2O2
d) CH2O2
The number of microstates, or microscopic configurations, of an ideal gas can be used to calculate a fundamental quantity in thermodynamics. Which quantity is this?
a) Pressure
b) Enthalpy
c) Entropy
d) Helmholtz Free Energy
e) Temperature
c) Entropy
Which of the following geometric shapes could NOT be made using solids of revolution:
a) sphere
b) circle
c) cylinder
d) torus
e) cone
b) circle
What does calculus mean in latin?
a) "You calculate"
b) "We calculate"
c) "Pebble"
d) "Accountant"
c) "Pebble"
Approximately how many neurons does the brain contain?
a) 85 million
b) 850 million
c) 8.5 billion
d) 85 billion
e) 850 billion
d) 85 billion
Upon dissolving a solid in water, you notice that the temperature of water has decreased. What kind of reaction was this?
a) Entropic
b) Aquathermic
c) Exothermic
d) Endothermic
d) Endothermic
It is observed that light bends when passing next to a massive star. If photons do not have any mass, why have their trajectories been curved by the star?
a) Photons do have mass
b) Newton's Law of gravitation does not apply to stars
c) Space is curved around a star
d) Photons are attracted by the electric field of the star
c) Space is curved around a star
What principle states that if two electrons reside in the same orbital, then their spin quantum numbers must be different?
a) Pauli exclusion principle
b) Fundamental Theorum of Electron States
c) Law of Electron Independence
d) Guernsey's Law
e) Professor Jinbachian's Discovery
a) Pauli exclusion principle
What feature is observed in f(x) when f"(x)=0?
a) An inflection point
b) A local minimum
c) A local maximum
d) A reflection point
a) An inflection point
Give the name of the famous neuroscientist from McGill university, who studied H.M., a patient whose hippocampus was removed
a) Brown Miller
b) Browning Chandler
c) Burning Candle
d) Brenda Milner
e) Daniel Kahneman
d) Brenda Milner
A solution of highly concentrated monoprotic acid was found to have a pOH of 17. What is the concentration of this acid in molar (M)?
a) 10^2 M
b) 10^3 M
c) 10^4 M
d) 10^5 M
e) 10^17 M
b) 10^3 M
What is the orbital period of Pluto in years, given that Pluto is on average 39.5 AU away from the Sun?
a) 346 years
b) 112 years
c) 248 years
d) 589 years
c) 248 years
Which of the following compounds does NOT play a role in the Krebs cycle?
a) malate
b) succinate
c) phosphoenolpyruvate
d) alpha-ketoglutarate
e) GTP
c) phosphoenolpyruvate
Consider a square in the plane. Is it possible to draw a curve in the square that touches every point inside the square?
a) No, since a line is a one-dimensional object and cannot fill a two-dimensional surface.
b) No, because a curve can never reach the corners of a square.
c) Yes, as long as the curve has non-zero thickness.
d) Yes, using what is called a space-filling curve.
d) Yes, using what is called a space-filling curve.
The _____ Fallacy describes people would rather painfully finish a bowl of pop-corn, since they already bought it.
a) Sunken Cost Fallacy
b) Wandered Ship Fallacy
c) Lost Path Fallacy
d) Personal Bias Fallacy
e) Money Hungry Fallacy
a) Sunken Cost Fallacy
How does the addition of a positive catalyst modify the change in energy of a system during a reaction?
a) Catalysts increase the heat released by decreasing the activation energy
b) Catalysts reduce the heat released by increasing the activation energy
c) Catalysts do not change the heat released; they only increase the activation energy
d) Catalysts do not change the heat released; they only decrease the activation energy
d) Catalysts do not change the heat released; they only decrease the activation energy
The speed of light changes from one medium to the next. This value depends on two constants that describe properties of a medium. What are those constants?
a) Electric potential and Magnetic resonance
b) Electric permittivity and Magnetic permeabiltiy
c) Electric susceptibility and Magnetic potential
d) Electric affinity and Magnetic susceptibility
b) Electric permittivity and Magnetic permeabiltiy
What effect causes hurricanes to spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, but clockwise in the southern hemisphere?
a) Rotational inertia
b) Coriolis effect
c) Longitudinal oscillation
d) Frank-Minsk effect
e) Oscillospheric effect
b) Coriolis effect
How many functions whose derivative is 3⋅e^(3x) that equal 1 at x=0 are there?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) There are an infinite number of such functions.
b) 1