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GRE
Physics
General Science
NC State
Pop Culture
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?
19.6m
100
A rock is attached to a string and is moving in a circular path on an ice covered lake. The string breaks. In what direction does the rock move?
The rock continues on its path tangential to the circle it was traveling along.
100
Ceres is the largest known one of these in our galaxy and the first to have been discovered.
Asteroid
100
What year was NC State Founded?
1887
100
What award winning musical garnered a record breaking 16 nominations at the 2016 Tony Awards?
Hamilton
200
De Broglie hypothesized that the linear momentum and wavelength of a free massive particle are related by which constant?
Planck's Constant
200
Two people are at the gym having a debate about how much energy is required to bench press a certain weight for one repetition. One person says that the energy required depends on how fast the weight is lifted. The other person says that it doesn't matter. Using an energy analysis determine which person is correct.
W=mgl, it does not depend on time.
200
The sign of delta G for a spontaneous reaction.
Negative
200
Who, in the 1993 ESPYs, gave a speech imploring viewers to Think, Laugh, and Cry every day?
James Valvano (Jimmy V)
200
What is Barack Obama's dog's name?
Bo, the Portugese Water Dog
300
Unpolarized light is incident on a pair of ideal linear polarizers whose transmission axes make an angle of 45° with each other. The transmitted light intensity through both polarizers is what percentage of the incident intensity?
25%
300
If the Sun were suddenly replaced by a black hole of the same mass, it would have a Schwarzschild radius of 3,000 m. What effect, if any, would this change have on the orbits of the planets?
No effect
300
This organelle contains its own DNA and can self reproduce.
Mitochondria or Chloroplasts
300
What were NC State's original colors?
Light Blue and Pink
300
What scientist hosted the tv show Cosmos?
Carl Sagan (Neil deGrasse Tyson also acceptable)
400
A simple pendulum of length l is suspended from the ceiling of an elevator that is accelerating upward with constant acceleration a. For small oscillations, the period, T, of the pendulum is
2pi*sqrt(l/(g-a))
400
A 50 kg crate is being pushed on a horizontal floor at constant velocity. Given that the coefficient of kinetic friction between crate and floor is μk = 0.1, what is the push force F?
49N
400
State the 2nd Thermodynamic Law.
Entropy of the universe is increasing.
400
What is written on the belltower door?
"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares"
400
Who is the most decorated female athlete of the 2016 Rio Olympics?
Katie Ledecky
500
In static electromagnetism, let E, B, J, and r be the electric field, magnetic field, current density, and charge density, respectively. Which of the following conditions allows the electric field to be written in the form E =−∇φ, where φ is the electrostatic potential?
∇xE=0
500
What is the electric field inside a conducting metal sphere?
E=0
500
Name the biological taxonomy in descending order.
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
500
What is Chancellor Woodson's middle name?
William Randy Woodson
500
What is the highest grossing film thus far of 2016?
Captain America: Civil War