Test Your Knowledge On Physics
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What is the only unit of measure still defined by an artifact?
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Kilogram
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Pound
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Liter
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Inch
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How much weight must the road support when the Crawler and the Space Shuttle travel?
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5 Million Pounds
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17 Million Pounds
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6 Million Pounds
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11 Million Pounds
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A. 17 Million Pounds -
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Which engine design is not to be considered "naturally balanced"?
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I-6
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V-8
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V-12
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I-4
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A. I-4 -
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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Maria Sklodowska-Curie
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Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin
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Irene Joliot-Curie
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer
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A. Maria Sklodowska-Curie -
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What is the energy value, in kilojoules, of 100 grams of oats?
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1566
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1297
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1454
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1304
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A. 1566 -
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When in use, about how hot [in degrees F] is the tungsten filament in an incandescent bulb?
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5900
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4700
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3500
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5660
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A. 4700 -
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At which frequency in megahertz does a normal microwave oven operate at?
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2,450
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7,000
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26,000
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100
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A. 2,450 -
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To whom is the discovery of the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics attributed?
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Ludwig Boltzmann
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Svante Arrhenius
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James Gibbs
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Lars Onsager
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A. Lars Onsager -
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Who was the head of the German version of the Manhattan Project?
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Max Born
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Werner Heisenberg
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Max Planck
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Robert Oppenheimer
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A. Werner Heisenberg -
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How is the mass defect explained in nuclear reactions?
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Einstein Formulated E=Mc^2 To Explain The Loss
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Plank Stated That Blackbody Radiation Resulted In Lost Mass
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Bequerel Discovered Radioactivity As A Result Of The Defect
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Bohr Said Stimulated Electrons Escape The Orbit Of The Nucleus
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A. Einstein Formulated E=Mc^2 To Explain The Loss -
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Who was the only person to win the Nobel Prize for Physics twice during the first hundred years of its existence (1901-2001)?
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John Bardeen
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Marie Curie
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Sir William H. Bragg
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Albert Einstein
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A. John Bardeen -
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What is the quark configuration of a neutron?
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Down, Anti-Up
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Up, Up, Down
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Up, Down, Down
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Up, Anti-Down
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A. Up, Down, Down -
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What particles are made up of two quarks?
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Fermions
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Bosons
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Mesons
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Leptons
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A. Mesons -
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What name is given to particles that do not obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
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Fermions
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Paulions
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There Are None. All Particles Obey That Principle
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Bosons
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A. Bosons -
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What is the theoretical function of the Higgs Boson?
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It Is The Force Particle For The Weak Interaction
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It Gives Particles Their Charge
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It Is The Force Particle For The Strong Interaction
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It Gives Particles Their Mass
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A. It Gives Particles Their Mass -
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