Ashraga 2011

PHYSICS QUIZ
Presented by

Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College, V V Puram

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20 questions No negatives, so do take guesses! In-built tiebreakers Top 6 teams make it to the final Please switch off mobile phones Quizmaster s decision is final and binding

1. Representation of what?

Hooke s law

2.
 On 21 Feb 1964, the Swiss postal authorities issued this 50 centime postage stamp . It is one of a series of three, the others being in honour of the International Union for the Preservation of Nature and its Resources (10 centime) and the 50th anniversary of the Swiss Industrial Fair at Basle (20 centime).  In honour of what was this particular stamp issued?

CERN

3.
Google Doodle dedicated to?

Morse code

4.
 It is the discipline, art, skill and profession

of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of people.  Definition of?

Engineering

5.

1. Polarizing filter film with a vertical axis to polarize light as it enters. 2. Glass substrate with ITO electrodes. The shapes of these electrodes will determine the shapes that will appear . 3. Twisted _______. 4. Glass substrate with common electrode film (ITO) with horizontal ridges to line up with the horizontal filter. 5. Polarizing filter film with a horizontal axis to block/pass light. 6.Reflective surface to send light back to viewer.

LCD

6.
 This first part of this word comes from

the Greek word meaning "light"  The second part comes from the name of the Italian physicist Volta, after whom a unit of electro-motive force(Volt) is named.  Which word from the world of Physics?

Photovoltaic

7.
 He started the movie production company

__________ Studios. It produced movies like The Great Train Robbery (1903), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1910), the first Frankenstein film in 1910. However _________ is only known for his inventions rather than his productions! Which great inventor?

Thomas Alva Edison

8.
Patent design of what?

Pendulum clock

9.
 X was discovered in the year 1898,

accidentally, in Paris. It was named from the Latin word for ray . Just days after it s discovery, it was known all over Europe.  It was initially used for the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, cosmetics, shaving sets etc., as X was mistaken to be very healthy. X is now used for totally contrasting purposes today.  Identify X.

Radium

10.
 Identify the author.

 The book is

considered the founding work of which branch of Physics?

Carnot and Thermodynamics

Nikola Tesla

12. Whose gravestone?

Boltzmann

13.
 Lever  Wheel and axle  Pulley  Inclined plane  Wedge  Screw

are collectively known as what?

Simple Machines

14.

C.V.Raman

15.
 It is an inductor designed to block (have a

high reactance to) higher frequencies in an electrical circuit while passing signals of much lower frequency or direct current. They are inductances that isolate AC frequency currents from certain areas of a radio circuit. They can be used to block alternating current while passing direct current.  What am I talking about?

Choke

16.Google Doodle in honour of

which great scientist?

Galileo

17.
William Oughtred and others developed the X in the 17th century based on the emerging work on logarithms by John Napier. Before the advent of the pocket calculator, it was the most commonly used calculation tool in science and engineering. The use of X continued to grow through the 1950s and 1960s even as digital computing devices were being gradually introduced; but around 1974 the electronic scientific calculator made it largely obsolete. In its most basic form, the X uses two logarithmic scales to allow rapid multiplication and division of numbers. These common operations can be time-consuming and error-prone when done on paper. More elaborate X allow other calculations, such as square roots, exponentials, logarithms, and trigonometric functions. X is of two words. X?

Slide rules

18.
 It is defined as

The maximum frictional force that can be produced between surfaces without slipping .

Traction

19.
 Gell-Mann originally named the _____ after

the sound made by ducks. For some time, he was undecided on an actual spelling for the term he intended to coin, until he found the word in James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake: Three ______ for Muster Mark! Sure he has not got much of a bark And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

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