A) Physics B) Biology C) History D) Psychology
A) 1918 B) 1923 C) 1905 D) 1940
A) Academy Award for Best Picture B) Nobel Prize in Physics C) Pulitzer Prize for Literature D) Grammy Award for Best Album
A) Challenger Task Force B) Rogers Commission C) Space Shuttle Investigative Board D) Feynman Committee
A) Phillips B) Christopher C) Michael D) Alexander
A) Quantum superposition B) Sum over histories C) Parallel universes D) Path integral formulation
A) The Physics Paradigm B) Scientific Inquiry Masterclass C) Cargo Cult Science D) The Feynman Technique
A) C++ B) Java C) Python D) Lisp
A) U.S. Navy B) Manhattan Project C) U.S. Army D) Marine Corps
A) Piano B) Guitar C) Bongo Drums D) Violin
A) Wave Functions B) Quantum Circuits C) Feynman Diagrams D) Particle Paths
A) 2000 B) 1988 C) 1995 D) 1975
A) 1988 B) 1959 C) 1972 D) 1965
A) Paul Dirac and Max Born B) Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga C) Enrico Fermi and Werner Heisenberg D) Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr
A) Thermodynamics B) Quantum electrodynamics (QED) C) General relativity D) Classical mechanics
A) University of Chicago B) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) C) Harvard University D) Yale University
A) Sigma Chi B) Phi Beta Kappa C) Delta Tau Delta D) Pi Lambda Phi
A) Yale University B) Harvard University C) MIT D) Princeton University
A) Niels Bohr B) John Archibald Wheeler C) Wolfgang Pauli D) Albert Einstein
A) The Uncertainty Principle B) Einstein's Theory of Relativity C) Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics D) The Principle of Least Action
A) Brooklyn, New York B) Staten Island C) Manhattan, New York D) Queens, New York
A) Malaria B) Cancer C) Tuberculosis D) Polio
A) It was conducted over the phone. B) It was a large public event with many guests. C) It was attended by neither family nor friends. D) It took place in a church.
A) The design of jet engines B) The creation of penicillin C) The invention of radar technology D) The development of the atomic bomb
A) Inventing the microprocessor B) Developing the first computer virus C) Pioneering quantum computing D) Creating the World Wide Web
A) Quantum tunneling B) Nano-sensors C) Bottom-up approach D) Top-down approach
A) Princeton University B) Harvard University C) California Institute of Technology (Caltech) D) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
A) Tenth-greatest physicist of all time B) Fifteenth-greatest physicist of all time C) Seventh-greatest physicist of all time D) First-greatest physicist of all time
A) "The Universe in a Nutshell" B) "The Future of Physics" C) "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" D) "Quantum Mechanics Simplified"
A) He converted to Christianity. B) He described himself as an 'avowed atheist'. C) He remained a practicing Jew. D) He became deeply religious.
A) A solar-powered car B) A home burglar alarm system C) A radio station D) A weather balloon
A) 125 B) 150 C) 130 D) 100
A) Ernest O. Lawrence B) Hans Bethe C) Robert R. Wilson D) Niels Bohr
A) Cyclotron B) Linear accelerator C) Isotron D) Calutron
A) Niels Bohr B) Robert R. Wilson C) Hans Bethe D) Ernest O. Lawrence
A) Niels Bohr B) Ernest O. Lawrence C) Robert Oppenheimer D) Hans Bethe
A) Developed a new type of bomb B) Invented a new type of reactor C) Devised safety procedures for material storage D) Designed new laboratory equipment
A) Klaus Fuchs B) Niels Bohr C) Hans Bethe D) Robert R. Wilson
A) Physical disability B) Perfect mental health C) Mental illness with a 4-F exemption D) Temporary stress disorder
A) Unknown from the text (father's name not provided) B) Melville Feynman C) Samuel Feynman D) Arthur Feynman
A) Adultery B) Extreme cruelty C) Desertion D) Irreconcilable differences
A) 1984 B) 1974 C) 1959 D) 1964
A) Weak force interactions B) The strong interactions governing nucleon scattering. C) Electromagnetic interactions D) Gravitational interactions
A) The Big Bang Theory B) Oppenheimer C) Infinity D) QED
A) Nucleons contained point-like particles that scattered electrons. B) Neutrons decay into protons and electrons. C) Photons have spin 2. D) Quarks were just a bookkeeping device for symmetry numbers.
A) Boise, Idaho B) Rio de Janeiro C) Neodesha, Kansas D) Pasadena, California
A) Chemotherapy B) Dialysis C) Surgery D) Radiation therapy
A) The Oersted Medal. B) The National Medal of Science. C) The Nobel Prize. D) The Albert Einstein Award.
A) Princeton University Press B) McGraw Hill C) MIT Press D) Addison Wesley
A) Enrico Fermi B) John von Neumann C) Edward Teller D) Bacher
A) Los Alamos Laboratory B) Cornell University C) Telluride House D) University of Wisconsin–Madison
A) 1988 B) 1974 C) 1966 D) 1955
A) 0-201-40955-0 B) 0-7382-0166-9 C) 0-393-01921-7 D) 0-393-31393-X
A) Alan Alda B) Matthew Broderick C) Oscar Isaac D) William Hurt
A) The American Physical Society. B) The National Academy of Sciences. C) The Nobel Committee. D) The Royal Society.
A) Nanoscale machines B) Microtechnology C) Quantum computing D) Swallowing the doctor
A) 1974 B) 1960 C) 1988 D) 1956
A) 1955 B) 1968 C) 1974 D) 1986
A) 1990 B) 1984 C) 1967 D) 1975
A) QANTUM B) ELECTRON C) PHOTON D) QUARKS
A) 1997 B) 1994 C) 1996 D) 1985
A) 1956 B) 1968 C) 1986 D) 1942
A) Sue B) Publicly criticize C) Write a rebuttal D) Ignore it
A) Gell-Mann B) Jenijoy La Belle C) Ralph Leighton D) Robert Leighton
A) Rio de Janeiro B) Belo Horizonte C) Salvador D) São Paulo
A) Quaternions B) Tensors C) Matrices D) Vectors
A) 1946 B) 1977 C) 1985 D) 1969
A) Feynman's Nobel Prize B) Feynman's Teaching Career C) Feynman's Love Letters D) The Challenger Disaster
A) 2013 B) 2016 C) 2005 D) 1996
A) 1983 B) 1984 C) 1985 D) 1986
A) 2000 B) 1990 C) 1985 D) 1979
A) 1985 B) 1974 C) 1977 D) 1979
A) Isidor Isaac Rabi. B) Lewis Strauss. C) Richard Schwinger. D) William P. Rogers.
A) 1950 B) 1948 C) 1974 D) 1966
A) a research assistant B) a lecturer C) Caltech's first female professor D) the head of the English literature department
A) One kidney B) Liver C) Pancreas D) Heart
A) Caltech was required to hire more female professors B) La Belle was entitled to immediate tenure C) La Belle's case was dismissed D) La Belle had been paid less than male colleagues
A) Penny B) Howard Wolowitz C) Sheldon Cooper D) Leonard Hofstadter
A) Jenijoy B) Gell-Mann C) Ann D) Ralph
A) Brazil B) Argentina C) Cuba D) Mexico
A) Ralph Leighton B) Seamus Blackley C) John Bardeen D) Gweneth
A) Alan Alda B) Jim Ottaviani C) Victor Stabin D) Matthew Broderick
A) 1978 B) 1986 C) 1987 D) 1988
A) Robert Leighton B) Ralph Leighton C) Gell-Mann D) Jenijoy La Belle
A) 0-201-40955-0 B) 0-7382-0108-1 C) 0-393-02659-0 D) 0-7382-0166-9
A) Apple Computer B) IBM C) Microsoft D) Google
A) "I am ready to go" B) "Thank you" C) "This dying is boring" D) "Goodbye"
A) "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" B) "You Just Ask Them?" C) "Six Easy Pieces" D) "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter"
A) 2000 B) 1988 C) 1995 D) 1991
A) Victor Stabin B) Peter Parnell C) Alan Alda D) Carl T. Herrman
A) 1974 B) 1984 C) 1964 D) 1959
A) An academic scholarship B) A job at Caltech C) A trip around the world D) $20 a week to be his live-in maid
A) 1985 B) 1979 C) 1969 D) 1977
A) Piano B) Frigideira C) Violin D) Guitar
A) Waldenström macroglobulinemia B) Melanoma C) Leukemia D) Liposarcoma
A) Julian Schwinger B) Niels Bohr C) Freeman Dyson D) Paul Dirac
A) Engineering and Science B) Physical Review C) Reviews of Modern Physics D) Science
A) Kip Thorne B) Michael Gottlieb C) Brian Hatfield D) Robin W. Allen
A) Quantum gravity B) Superconductivity C) Weak decay D) Strong interactions
A) 100 B) 50 C) 30 D) 10 |