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This is the only prime number that ends in 5

what is 5

100

This force keeps ships afloat

what is the Buoyant Force

100

This man laid out the theory for elliptical motion of planets

Who was Johannes Kepler

100

This is the current chair of the IU physics department

who is Prof. David Baxter

100

this is the largest fusion power source utilized by humans

what is the sun

200

This number is the smallest perfect square and perfect cube, other than 1

what is 64

200

This is what happens to the distance between two objects, dropped 1 second apart, in the absence of air resistance, in a gravitational field

what is increase

200

This person theorized black holes can 'evaporate' over time

who is Stephen Hawking

200

Before the most recent renovation, this was the year of the last renovation of Swain West

what is 1973

200

This is the first animal successfully cloned from adult mammalian cells

who is dolly the sheep

300

this is the 49th derivative of sin(x)?

what is cos(x)

300

This kind of mirror can produce a real image

What is a concave mirror?

300

This is the person who first discovered the fundamental properties of a pendulum

who is Galileo Galilei

300

This was the medical procedure that used to be performed at the MESH/CEEM building at IU

what is proton radiotherapy

300

this is the number of official languages United Nations documents are written in

what is 6

400

This is the name of the extension of the factorial function to all real numbers

what is the gamma function

400

this the value of the gravitational constant G in MKS units (with units)

what is 6.674 x 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2

400

Einstein won the Nobel prize in physics for discovering this effect

What is the photoelectric effect

400
This is the number of former IU professors who have won Nobel prizes in physics

what is 2?

400

this is the number of officially recognized countries

what is 195

500

This is the antiderivative of ln(X)

what is xln(x)-x+c

500
this is the unit of charge in gauss units

what is the statĀ­coulomb 

500

This scientist is the only person to win Nobel prizes in both physics and chemistry

who is Marie Curie

500

IU's first Hoosier Born President

Who was Joseph Swain?

500

This is what the acronym LASER stands for

what is Light Amplification through Stimulated Emission of Radiation