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A) Goldstein, Martin and Inge F. B) Cornelius Lanczos C) Kroemer and Kittel D) Raymond Serway
A) From Watt to Clausius B) Timeless Reality C) Science and Hypothesis D) The Science of Energy
A) E. Mach B) Sadi Carnot C) H. Poincaré D) T.S. Kuhn
A) The Refrigerator and the Universe B) From Watt to Clausius C) Five Equations That Changed the World D) Thinking about Consciousness
A) Peter J. Nolan B) Paul Tipler C) Cornelius Lanczos D) John W. Jewett
A) 1965 B) 1872 C) 1998 D) 1957
A) Fundamentals of College Physics B) Thermal Physics C) Science and Hypothesis D) The Refrigerator and the Universe
A) C. Smith B) T.M. Brown C) E.N. Hiebert D) G. Sarton
A) Principles of Modern Chemistry B) Thermal Physics C) Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics, Oscillations and Waves, Thermodynamics D) Thinking about Consciousness
A) E. Mach B) M. Guillen C) T.S. Kuhn D) H. Poincaré
A) The total energy fluctuates based on entropy. B) The total energy remains constant. C) Mass is converted into energy infinitely. D) Energy is constantly created over time.
A) Through energy entering or leaving the system. B) By destroying existing energy. C) It cannot be changed under any circumstances. D) By creating new energy within the system.
A) Bernoulli's principle B) Torricelli's principle C) The stationary-action principle D) Noether's theorem
A) The law of conservation of energy. B) The lack of advanced engineering. C) Frictional forces that are too high. D) The law of universal gravitation.
A) Air B) Water C) Atoms D) Fire
A) Simon Stevin B) Isaac Newton C) Galileo D) Gottfried Leibniz
A) Torricelli's Principle B) The law of universal gravitation C) The law of inertia D) The principle of virtual work
A) Potential energy B) Vis viva C) Momentum D) Kinetic energy
A) Antoine Lavoisier B) Émilie du Châtelet C) Thomas Young D) Daniel Bernoulli
A) Isaac Newton B) Thomas Young C) Gottfried Leibniz D) Karl Friedrich Mohr
A) Fifty-four B) Five C) Infinite D) One
A) Thermal expansion B) Chemical combustion C) Mass defect D) Hawking radiation
A) Ek=1/2mv2 B) Ek=mv2 C) Ek=mc2 D) Ek=1/2mv
A) Phlogiston theory B) Caloric theory C) Theory of relativity D) Atomic theory
A) Count Rumford B) James Prescott Joule C) William Rankine D) Mikhail Lomonosov
A) Rubbing wooden sticks B) Hammering steel C) Compressing gas D) Boring cannons
A) Julius Robert von Mayer B) William Robert Grove C) Peter Guthrie Tait D) Hermann von Helmholtz
A) Sadi Carnot B) Ludwig A. Colding C) William Rankine D) Émile Clapeyron
A) Julius Robert von Mayer B) Hermann von Helmholtz C) William Robert Grove D) James Prescott Joule
A) Peter Guthrie Tait B) William Robert Grove C) Hermann von Helmholtz D) William Rankine
A) Isaac Newton B) William Rankine C) James Prescott Joule D) Hermann von Helmholtz
A) Count Rumford B) Peter Guthrie Tait C) Mikhail Lomonosov D) William Rankine
A) They are interchangeable B) They are mutually exclusive C) Heat cannot become work D) Work cannot become heat
A) They were not documented B) They were too complex C) They were falsified D) They were imprecise
A) They were eating less food B) The humidity was lower C) The oxygen was denser D) They were maintaining their body temperature less aggressively
A) Thermodynamics B) Quantum mechanics C) Special relativity D) Classical mechanics
A) It disappears completely B) It is not conserved C) It increases D) It remains constant
A) Protons B) Photons C) Neutrons D) More electrons
A) Only in isolated systems B) No C) Yes D) Only at high speeds
A) It increases B) It decreases C) It does not change D) It fluctuates
A) As nonexistent laws B) As mathematical theories only C) As a single unified law D) As two seemingly-distinct laws
A) Beta decay does not emit electrons. B) Electrons in beta decay have a discrete spectrum. C) Electrons in beta decay have a continuous spectrum. D) The energy of beta decay is always constant.
A) Enrico Fermi B) Albert Einstein C) James Clerk Maxwell D) Isaac Newton
A) Proton B) Antineutrino C) Photon D) Neutron
A) TdS B) PdV C) μdN D) dQ/dT
A) μ dN B) PdV C) dU + dW D) TdS
A) Mechanical pressure B) Mass density C) Chemical potential D) Molar heat capacity
A) U - TS B) U + PV C) H - TS D) H + TS
A) Because internal energy is not conserved B) Because temperature is not defined C) Because matter carries its own entropy D) Because work is zero
A) James Clerk Maxwell B) Albert Einstein C) Isaac Newton D) Emmy Noether
A) 1905 B) 1915 C) 1920 D) 1918
A) Space translation symmetry B) Time invariance C) Gauge symmetry D) Rotational symmetry
A) Nothing depends on time per se B) Matter depends on space per se C) Time is an absolute constant D) Energy is always increasing
A) Flat space-time B) Four-dimensional Hilbert space C) Expanding space D) Curved space-time
A) 1912 B) 1922 C) 1918 D) 1915
A) Minkowski scalar field B) Stress-energy pseudotensor C) Riemann curvature tensor D) Energy-momentum 4-vector
A) Minkowski B) Kerr-Newman C) Schwarzschild D) Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker
A) Henri Poincaré B) Albert Einstein C) John Baez D) Alan Guth
A) Four B) Two C) One D) Three
A) Hamiltonian B) Hilbertian C) Noetherian D) Lagrangian
A) Milton A. Rothman B) Albert Einstein C) Professor Eric Ash D) Max Planck
A) Synchrotron B) Cyclotron C) Orbo D) Tokamak
A) Euclidean metric B) Schwarzschild metric C) Minkowski metric D) Lorentzian metric |