Test your knowledge of science
Answers to come later.
1. What is a Googol and what is its power? What year was it first used and who named it?
2. Give the power and numerals of the following Prefix's:
Exa; Peta; Tera
3. Name the very large numbers starting with Billion up to the name with 100 zeros?
4. What is a finite number and an Infinite Number and is it possible to count to infinity?
5. Define Absolute Zero:
6. Define Superconductivity:
7. Define "String Theory." :
8. What is Inertia? What law in Physics did Inertia inspire, and who is the Scientist who proposed it?
9. Name the two lift forces that causes a baseball to curve and how many inches and centimeters it can curve in the 60.6 inches or 18.4 meters it travels from pitcher to batter:
10. Two well-known scientific principles dictate the characteristic flight of a boomerang. What are they?
11. Who is the founder of the science of Magnetism? What is the unit of magnetism named for him and what is it's symbol?
12. What is the name used to identifty a supposed substance given off during the process of combustion? Name the Theory and the Chemist who developed it.
13. What is an Adiabatic process?
14. Who invented tghe Cyclotron, and what is it used to study?
15. What is a Leyden Jar and what is it used for?
16. What is the speed of light in miles per second and kilometers per second?
17. Is the speed of sound constant, and if not, what does it depend on?
18. What is the fourth state of matter?
19. What is the difference between Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion?
20. Who developed the Periodic table?
21. What was the first element to be discovered?
22. What are the most abundant atoms in the universe, and what is the name of the rule that describes this?
23. What is the density of air?
24. What are the 4 major divisions of Chemistry?
25. What is Nuclear Magnetic Resonance?
26. What is a Syzygy?
27. What is an Opposition?
28. How many Constellations are there?
29. What is a Sun Dog?
30. What is Sidereal time?