Physics Challenge: Forces, Fields, and Fundamental Ideas

Question 1

Which physicist first proposed that planetary orbits could be explained by the same force that causes objects to fall on Earth?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

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Johannes Kepler

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Galileo Galilei

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Tycho Brahe

Question 2

In special relativity, what happens to the measured passage of time for a clock moving at very high speed relative to an observer?

Accepted Answer

It appears to slow down

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It appears to speed up

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It appears unchanged

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It appears to run backward

Question 3

Which law explains why a changing magnetic field can induce an electric current in a loop of wire?

Accepted Answer

Faraday's law

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Coulomb's law

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Boyle's law

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Hooke's law

Question 4

What is the SI unit of electric capacitance?

Accepted Answer

Farad

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Henry

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Weber

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Tesla

Question 5

In wave physics, which change occurs when light passes from air into glass?

Accepted Answer

Its speed decreases

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Its frequency increases

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Its wavelength increases

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Its amplitude must double

Question 6

Which quantity is conserved in an isolated system even when kinetic energy is not?

Accepted Answer

Momentum

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Power

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Temperature

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Voltage

Question 7

The photoelectric effect provided strong evidence for which idea about light?

Accepted Answer

Light carries quantized packets of energy

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Light travels only in straight lines

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Light always behaves as a continuous wave

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Light has no momentum

Question 8

Which particle in the atom was discovered through Rutherford's gold foil experiment to be concentrated in a tiny central region?

Accepted Answer

Nucleus

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Electron

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Neutron

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Photon

Question 9

What is the name of the temperature scale at which zero corresponds to the minimum possible thermal energy state?

Accepted Answer

Kelvin

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Celsius

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Fahrenheit

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Rankine

Question 10

Which principle states that it is impossible to know both the exact position and exact momentum of a particle simultaneously?

Accepted Answer

Heisenberg uncertainty principle

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Pauli exclusion principle

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Correspondence principle

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Superposition principle

Question 11

A resistor's opposition to current is measured in which unit?

Accepted Answer

Ohm

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Volt

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Ampere

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Joule

Question 12

Which thermodynamic process occurs at constant temperature?

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Isothermal

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Adiabatic

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Isobaric

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Isochoric

Question 13

What kind of lens is typically used to correct nearsightedness (myopia)?

Accepted Answer

Concave lens

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Convex lens

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Cylindrical lens

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Bifocal lens

Question 14

Which phenomenon causes the apparent change in frequency of a siren as an ambulance drives past?

Accepted Answer

Doppler effect

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Zeeman effect

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Compton effect

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Hall effect

Question 15

In nuclear physics, which process powers the Sun?

Accepted Answer

Nuclear fusion

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Alpha decay

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Nuclear fission

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Beta decay

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