TAU Club Final Game

Magnetism

100

A magnetic fueled by electricity.

What is an electromagnet?

200

A field that electrons produce when they move.

What is a magnetic field?

300

The three magnetic elements.

What are iron, nickel, and cobalt?

400

A generator converts ____ and ____ energy into electrical energy.

What is mechanical and magnetic energies?

500

The name of an electromagnet formed from a helical coil of wire whose length is significantly longer than its diameter, creating a stable magnetic field.

Hint: It is used in speakers

What is a solenoid?

Sound

100

The thing that most waves need to travel.

What is a medium?

200

The state of matter that sound waves travel the fastest through.

What is a solid?

300

This is what the magnet in the speakers move back and forth to produce sound waves.

What is a diaphragm?

400

The type of magnet used in speakers.

Hint: A circle with one pole and a rod in the middle with another.

What is an annular magnet?

500

The condition where the frequency of a force driving an oscillating system matches the natural frequency of one of that system's normal modes is called:

(a) Diffraction
(b) Refraction
(c) Resonance
(d) Interference

What is (c) Resonance?

Electricity

100

The two types of circuits.

What are series and parallel circuits?

200

The rate of flow of charge is called this.

What is the current?

300

Equation to calculate the total resistance in a parallel circuit with two resistors.

What is 1/R1+1/R2=1/R?

400

Daily Double!!!

If you connect a light bulb to a battery using two wires, the bulb lights up. But what would happen if you connected both wires to the same terminal of the battery instead? Why?

What is (depends on the answer)?

500

An electrical component that:

• Stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other12345.
• Consists of two metal plates with a dielectric material in between4.
• Does not dissipate energy like a resistor

What is a capacitor?

Mathematics

100

√(49/4)=?

What is + or - (7/2)?

200

Some functions tend towards a line in the form y=mx+b (m≠0) as they go to ∞ and -∞. The name of this line is...

What is a slant asymptote?

300

If a 30°-60°-90° triangle has sides of a:√3a:2a, calculate sin(30°), cos(30°), and tan(30°).

What is 1/2, √3/2, and √3/3?

400

lim(x->2)((x²+x-6)/(x-2)²) = ?

What is 5/2?

500

d/dx(x²-4x+4) = ?

What is 2x-4?

Miscellaneous

100

What is the url for the TAU club website and will you check it regularly and share it with your friends?

What is atomicuniverse.wixsite.com/tauclub and YES!!?

200

The point where the weighted mass of n number of objects is equal to zero.

What is the center of mass?

300

What is the third shortest wavelength and the second longest wavelength?

What is Ultraviolet and Microwaves (respectively)?

400

The Planck Length

What is 1.6*10^-35 m?

500

The law that prevents white holes from existing.

Hint: Disorder

What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics (i.e. Entropy)?