- QFTCICR19 Game 4, Rounds 4,6: 1938, physics - 1 Update
| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Mar 07 02:48PM On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:36:15 -0600, Mark Brader wrote: > reported a surprising experimental result, Lise Meitner and Otto > Frisch worked out how it was possible and realized that they had > discovered *what new source of energy*? Nuclear Energy > his joining the team that broke the Germans' codes during World War > II. What code machine was Turing principally involved with during > the war? Enigma > 4. In 1938 two US oil companies in partnership discovered a massive > quantity of oil in Saudi Arabia. Name either US company as it was > known at the time, or give its current name. ExxonMobil > 5. This inventor greatly improved and patented a type of pen, > to great success. In many countries, his name is synonymous with > that type of pen. Who? Biro > 6. Which American company synthesized a new polymer that they > named nylon? DuPont > 7. US Congress passed into law the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, > a bill that provided rights and other benefits to American workers > over age 18. Name any of the rights or provisions it created. 40 hour work week > 8. A large surplus of coffee beans led to the creation of a new > product. Name the company or the product, or give the generic name > for the product. Instant Coffee > 9. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote a novel of a young boy's > attachment to a baby wild animal. Give the title. The Yearling > 10. Thornton Wilder wrote a stage play that follows the daily > lives of people in a small town. Give the title. Our Town > * Game 4, Round 6 - Physics Miscellany > 1. The standard model of physics recognizes four forces: the strong > force, the weak force, the electromagnetic force, and what other? Gravity > light, with different energies and different frequencies. Photons > with the lowest energy and lowest frequencies make up radio waves. > What do those with highest energy and highest frequencies make? Gamma rays > of quantum theory. Named after him is a fundamental constant of > quantum physics, which relates the energy of a photon to its > frequency. Name the *letter* that's used to denote this constant. h > 4. SNOLAB is a physics laboratory located 2 km underground in a > nickel mine in Sudbury, Ontario. It was designed to observe what > subatomic particles coming from outer space? Neutrino > 5. What do we call the effect when the frequency of sound or light > waves increases when emitted from a source moving toward us? Doppler shift > 6. The positively-charged antimatter counterpart of the electron > is called an antielectron -- or, more commonly, what? proton > 7. According to Ohm's Law, what do we get when we divide the voltage > across an electrical resistor by its resistance? Or if you like, > just name the unit we measure it in. amp > 8. What causes the cracking sound of a whip when properly wielded? exceeding the speed of sound > 9. What term refers to the result of multiplying the velocity of > a moving object by its mass? momentum > 10. What short, unprefixed name applies to an SI unit for force? > (For example, if we had asked for pressure we would want the pascal, > not the kilopascal and not the kg/m·s².) Newton |
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