James Clerk Maxwell - Test
A) 1901 B) 1801 C) 1861 D) 1831
A) Electromagnetism B) Quantum Mechanics C) Astrophysics D) Thermodynamics
A) University of Edinburgh B) University of Cambridge C) University of Oxford D) University of Glasgow
A) Red, Purple, Green B) Green, Yellow, Blue C) Red, Green, Blue D) Red, Yellow, Blue
A) Farad B) Hertz C) Weber D) Ohm
A) 1889 B) 1879 C) 1899 D) 1909
A) National Academy of Sciences B) Royal Society C) European Academy of Sciences D) American Physical Society
A) Gravity and Weak Nuclear Force B) Gravity and Strong Nuclear Force C) Electricity and Magnetism D) Weak Nuclear Force and Electromagnetism
A) Telegraph B) Radio C) Internet D) Television
A) Schrodinger's Equation B) Ohm's Law C) Newton's Laws D) Maxwell's Equations
A) Scottish B) English C) Welsh D) Irish
A) 1854 B) 1860 C) 1859 D) 1865
A) Adams Prize B) Nobel Prize C) Cavendish Medal D) Smith’s Prize
A) The discovery of radio waves B) The second great unification in physics C) The invention of the steam engine D) The first great unification in physics
A) Isaac Newton B) Niels Bohr C) Albert Einstein D) James Watt
A) King’s College London B) Oxford University C) Marischal College D) Trinity College, Cambridge
A) Binomial distribution B) Poisson distribution C) Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution D) Normal distribution
A) The first digital photograph B) The first durable colour photograph C) The first black and white photograph D) The first panoramic photograph
A) The Maxwell model for viscoelastic materials B) The theory of relativity C) The quantum model D) The theory of evolution
A) As a founder B) As a student C) As a historian D) As a critic
A) Classical physics B) Modern physics C) Medieval physics D) Ancient physics
A) Relativity B) Entropy C) Quantum D) Chaos
A) Civil engineer B) Artist C) Farmer D) Advocate
A) Cousin B) Brother C) Nephew D) Son
A) Blackburn B) Clerk C) Dyce D) Cay
A) 45 B) 30 C) Nearly 40 D) 25
A) Frances B) Elizabeth C) Jemima D) Jane
A) Penicuik B) Middlebie C) Glenlair, Kirkcudbrightshire D) Edinburgh
A) 500 acres B) 750 acres C) 2,000 acres D) 1,500 acres (610 ha)
A) "How does it work?" B) "Show me how it doos" C) "Tell me more" D) "What's the go o' that?"
A) Jemima Blackburn B) John Clerk Maxwell C) William Dyce Cay D) Robert Hodshon Cay
A) His father B) A hired tutor C) His aunt Isabella D) His mother, Frances
A) 20 years old B) 16 years old C) 18 years old D) 22 years old
A) Peter Guthrie Tait B) Robert Davidson C) Lewis Campbell D) James Forbes
A) 1841 B) 1842 C) 1843 D) 1840
A) His older cousin Jemima B) His aunt Isabella C) His father D) His mother, Frances
A) Tate B) Heaviside C) Einstein D) Maxwell
A) Colin Mackenzie B) George Edward Paget C) Professor Lewis Campbell D) William Garnett
A) Peter Guthrie Tait B) Lewis Campbell C) Robert Davidson D) James Forbes
A) Near the choir screen at Westminster Abbey B) In Parton Kirk C) At the Cavendish Laboratory D) In Cambridge University Chapel
A) Thomas Sutton B) Albert Einstein C) Isaac Newton D) Niels Bohr
A) 1873 B) 1865 C) 1861 D) 1881
A) Daftie B) Bookworm C) Genius D) Smartie
A) Maxwell's equations B) The concept of force fields C) Vector analysis D) The luminiferous aether
A) Rudolf Clausius B) Josiah Willard Gibbs C) John Herapath D) Daniel Bernoulli
A) £200 B) £100 C) £130 D) £50
A) The 'butterfly effect' B) Quantum entanglement C) Thermodynamic equilibrium D) The theory of relativity
A) Oliver Heaviside B) James Clerk Maxwell C) Albert Einstein D) Peter Guthrie Tate
A) 50 B) 55 C) 60 D) 48
A) 15 hours B) 20 hours C) 10 hours D) 25 hours
A) Letting nothing be wilfully left unexamined B) Focusing only on theology C) Focusing only on mathematics D) Focusing only on physics
A) Cholera B) Tuberculosis C) Malaria D) Smallpox
A) Rudolf Clausius B) Ludwig Boltzmann C) Josiah Willard Gibbs D) Peter Guthrie Tait
A) 1863 B) 1865 C) 1861 D) early 1862
A) His own willpower B) Social interactions C) God's grace D) Scientific discovery
A) Skin cancer B) Brain cancer C) Abdominal cancer D) Lung cancer
A) A vacuum B) Magnetic fields C) Electric fields D) A medium called the luminiferous aether
A) Steam engine regulation B) Phase transitions C) Viscoelastic materials D) Heat transport
A) 1865 B) 1860 C) 1861 D) 1862
A) dimensional analysis B) quantum mechanics C) calculus D) thermodynamics
A) 1882 B) 1890 C) 1865 D) 1875
A) Quaternions B) Vector analysis C) Scalar potentials D) Partial differential equations
A) Michael Faraday B) Albert Einstein C) James Clerk Maxwell D) Isaac Newton
A) They are fully understood by all B) They are irrelevant to modern science C) They are commonly supposed to be 'Tabooed' by the orthodox D) They are universally accepted
A) The CGS system B) The Imperial system C) The Metric system D) The SI system
A) Science Magazine B) Scientific American C) PhysicsWeb D) Nature
A) Isaac Newton B) René Descartes C) Carl Friedrich Gauss D) Leonhard Euler
A) 1861 B) 1865 C) 1862 D) 1860
A) 15 B) 13 C) 12 D) 14
A) Royal Society B) Cambridge Philosophical Society C) Cambridge Apostles D) Trinity College Society
A) 2 June 1860 B) 2 June 1859 C) 2 June 1858 D) 2 June 1857
A) Mathematical mentor B) Math genius C) Math prodigy D) Senior wrangler-maker
A) Second B) Equal with Edward Routh C) Third D) First
A) Glenlair B) Aberdeen C) London D) Edinburgh
A) 25 December 1855 B) 10 October 1855 C) 15 August 1855 D) 1 January 1855
A) A plaster thermodynamic visualisation B) A paper on governors C) A treatise on electricity and magnetism D) A model for viscoelastic materials
A) Maxwell's demon B) Maxwell's thermodynamic visualisation C) Maxwell's thermodynamic relations D) The Maxwell-Cattaneo equation
A) Empiricist B) Antipositivist C) Positivist D) Rationalist
A) Photoelasticity B) Electromagnetism C) Quantum mechanics D) Thermodynamics
A) Flute B) Guitar C) Piano D) Violin
A) Niels Bohr B) Isaac Newton C) Albert Einstein D) George Biddell Airy
A) 1867-1868 B) 1859 C) 1874 D) 1871
A) The Rumford Medal B) The Nobel Prize C) The Copley Medal D) The Faraday Medal
A) Albert Einstein B) Isaac Newton C) Thomas Young D) James Clerk Maxwell
A) The Faraday experiment B) The Michelson–Morley experiment C) The Einstein experiment D) The Maxwell experiment
A) April 1853 B) December 1855 C) June 1850 D) March 1852
A) Outgoing personality B) Charisma C) Social awkwardness D) Public speaking skills
A) Erwin Schrödinger B) Richard Feynman C) Albert Einstein D) Niels Bohr
A) 1865 B) 1879 C) 1876 D) 1871
A) Mathematical errors B) Scientific doubts C) Theological questions D) Holy spots
A) Permanent double refraction B) No refraction C) Temporary double refraction produced by shear stress D) Single refraction |
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