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Physics - 20 General Knowledge Questions - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 864 times
- The average score is 7 of 20
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What is the most abundant of the four fundamental states of matter in the observable universe? | Plasma | 65%
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| What was discovered by J. J. Thomson in 1897? | Electron | 62%
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| What is the name of a positively charged ion? | Cation | 60%
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| What waves of the electromagnetic spectrum have the shortest wavelength? | Gamma Rays | 59%
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| What is the name of the hypothetical particle that mediates gravity? | Graviton | 57%
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| How do you call product of the mass and velocity? | Momentum | 57%
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| What is the fourth fundamental force in nature, in addition to gravity, weak interaction, and strong interaction? | Electromagnetism | 47%
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| What is the name of the relativistic effect in which two clocks show different measured times due to differing velocities between them, or due to being in different gravitational fields? | Time Dilation | 41%
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| The triple alpha process is a nuclear fusion reaction in which three alpha particles combine to form which element? | Carbon | 36%
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| Sadi Carnot is often referred to as the 'father' of which field of physics? | Thermodynamics | 35%
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| Weakly interacting massive particles and axions are proposed types of what hypothetical but largely accepted form of matter? | Dark Matter | 34%
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| Who engaged in a number of significant debates with Einstein over the years about the nature of quantum mechanics, from which he is considered to have emerged victorious? | Niels Bohr | 32%
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| What hypothetical property of spacetime is also known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge? | Wormhole | 32%
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| Who was one of the key developers of modern physics with his 1900 law about black body radiation? | Max Planck | 27%
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| In the International System of Units, what is the name of unit of measure for radioactivity? | Becquerel | 22%
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| Who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the wave nature of electron? | Louis de Broglie | 16%
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| Which physicist predicted the existence of antimatter while trying to reconcile relativity with quantum mechanics? | Paul Dirac | 16%
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| What is the name of radiation in which a charged particle passes through a dielectric medium faster than the speed of light in that medium? | Cherenkov Radiation | 11%
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| What kind of experiment is Wigner's Friend an example of? | Thought Experiment | 7%
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| Expulsion of the magnetic field from a cooled superconductor is called how? | Meissner Effect | 3%
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