Definitions
Experiments
Trivia
T or F
Problems
100

A number, b, ___ a number ,a, and write b|a, if there is an integer c so that a = bc.

What is divides (is a divisor, etc.)?

100

This famous experiment illustrated the wave-particle duality of particles.

What is the double-slit experiment?

100

This mathematician was shot and killed in a duel in 1831.

Who is Galois?

100

Maxwell's equations are all created by Maxwell.

What is a false statement?

100

A 623 nm laser has a power of 5 mW. Find the photons per second of the laser. (to at least the order of magnitude)

What is 1.6 X 10^16
200

A set is ___ if it is closed and bounded.

What is compact?

200

This experiment was one of the first to measure the gravitational constant, G.

What is the Cavendish experiment?

200

This unit is the base unit of mass in the SI system.

What is a kilogram?

200

The set of the integers, Z, forms what an algebrist would call a ring.

What is a True statement?

200

A sniper sits atop a cliff, but he forgot how high up he is, so he grabs a rock, drops it, and times its fall.  When it hit the ground, the stopwatch said 20s.

He knows his target is 29,986.585 m away, his gun shoots at 1500m/s, and that if he shoots completely parallel to the ground, it will hit.  How tall is his target? (use feet, 1m = 3.281ft)

What is 5'9?

300

A matrix is ____ if there is a diagonal matrix D so that there exists an invertible P matrix so that P^{-1}AP = D.

What is diagonalizable?

300

This famous experiment demonstrated the quantization of angular momentum.

What is the Stern--Gerlach Experiment?

300

This hall houses the nursing department.

What is Anna Pearl Sherrick Hall?

300

The tachyon always travels faster than light.

What is a true statement?

300
(a) Find the line that is the intersection of two planes x - 2y + z = 0 and x+y+4z = 0.


(b) Then find the basis and dimension of the orthogonal complement of that line.


(a) What is (-3,-1,1)t for all t in R?

(b) What is dimension 2 with (1,-2,1) and (1,1,4)

400

Let V be a vector space and x,y in V.  A mapping VxV to R (real numbers) that satisfies

(x,y)>= 0

(x,y)=(y,x)

(x,y+z)=(x,y)+(x,z)

(x,ay)=a(x,y).

What is an (real) inner-product?

400

The specific type of scattering which causes the sky to be blue.

What is Rayleigh scattering?

400

This agency has the highest amount of research expenditures at MSU.

What is the USDOD?

400

There are equal parts biology and non-biology focused professors in the math faculty.

What is a false statement? (There are 6 and a half biology-centered professors, 7 and a half non-biology-centered professors)

400

Show that f(x) = 3x-3 is uniformly continuous at x = 1.

Let epsilon>0? Suppose |x-1|<delta?  Choose delta = epsilon/3?

|f(x) - f(1)| = |3x-3| = 3|x-1| < 3delta = epsilon???

500

This function is ____ at a point y in its domain D, if there exists an m>0, so that for n>0, |x-y|<1/n, y in D, and |f(x)-f(y)|>= 1/m 

What is not continuous?

500

This experimentalist discovered a specific kind of random motion of pollen and dye particles moving through water and the motion was named after him.

Who is (Robert) Brown?

500

MSU requires a total of this many M or STAT courses to finish a math degree. (within an error of 5 credits)

What is 52?

500

Tyler Delridge currently attends Montana State University.

What is a true statement???

500

Observe the circuit on the board.  Find the magnitude of the gain (ratio of vout/vin) for this circuit.

What is sqrt{(w^2L^2)/(w^2L^2 + R^2)}?