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