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