- 1. When was Heike Kamerlingh Onnes born?
A) 1800
B) 1900
C) 1950
D) 1853
- 2. In which country was Heike Kamerlingh Onnes born?
A) Netherlands
B) United States
C) France
D) Russia
- 3. Which university did Heike Kamerlingh Onnes work at for most of his career?
A) University of Tokyo
B) University of Leiden
C) Harvard University
D) Oxford University
- 4. What is the unit of temperature used by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes for his experiments?
A) Fahrenheit
B) Celsius
C) Kelvin
D) Rankine
- 5. What phenomenon occurs when a superconductor is exposed to a magnetic field?
A) Evaporation
B) Meissner effect
C) Condensation
D) Photosynthesis
- 6. What happens to the magnetic field inside a superconductor when it transitions into the superconducting state?
A) Doubled
B) Expelled
C) Attracted
D) Reversed
- 7. At what temperature does liquid helium reach its superfluid state?
A) 2.17 Kelvin
B) 0 Celsius
C) 32 Fahrenheit
D) 100 Kelvin
- 8. What is the electrical resistance of a superconductor at very low temperatures?
A) Variable
B) Constant
C) Zero
D) Infinite
- 9. Which element did Heike Kamerlingh Onnes first observe superconductivity in?
A) Silicon
B) Mercury
C) Carbon
D) Gold
- 10. In what year did Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discover superconductivity?
A) 1969
B) 1776
C) 1492
D) 1911
- 11. What did Heike Kamerlingh Onnes use to achieve very low temperatures in his experiments?
A) Liquid nitrogen
B) Dry ice
C) Water
D) Liquid helium
- 12. What term is used to describe the sudden loss of resistance in a material at low temperatures?
A) Superconductivity
B) Supergravity
C) Superfluidity
D) Supermagnetism
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