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  • 1. 
    In the International System of Units, what is the basic unit of work?

  • kilogram
  • joule
  • newton
  • kelvin

  • 2. 
    Who was the most influential early proponent of the idea that electricity was a fluid infusing all things in greater or lesser amounts?

  • Elon Musk
  • Ada Lovelace
  • Aristotle
  • Benjamin Franklin

  • 3. 
    What subatomic particle, discovered in the 1970s by Martin Lewis Perl, is the "third" lepton, after the electron and the muon?

  • the antineutrino
  • the quark
  • the baryon
  • the tau

  • 4. 
    The Rutherford atomic model, sometimes called the planetary model of the atom, describes the atom as taking which configuration?

  • a dense, positive nucleus surrounded by electrons revolving in a set number of specific orbits
  • a dense, positively charged nucleus orbited by light, negatively charged electrons
  • positively charged matter embedded with negatively charged electrons
  • negative electrons occupying specific shells extending outward from a dense, positive nucleus

  • 5. 
    What was invented in the 1740s that consisted of a glass vial partly filled with water and a wire pushed through a cork into the water on one end and connected to a friction device that produced static electricity on the other?

  • the first ionization chamber
  • the first electrical generator
  • the first charge storage device
  • the first artificial lightning

  • 6. 
    Which study deals with the most general properties of matter, such as the behaviour of bodies under the influence of forces, and with the origins of those forces?

  • geology
  • botany
  • chemistry
  • physics

  • 7. 
    Hooke’s law declares that the size of the deformation of an object is directly proportional to the deforming force. What physical phenomenon is this?

  • elasticity
  • ductility
  • mass
  • speed

  • 8. 
    When you put a rod into a container of clear water, the rod appears to bend at the surface and continues underwater at a different angle. What principle of physics is this?

  • angle of incidence
  • refraction
  • wave interference
  • partial reflection

  • 9. 
    In 1801 Johann Wilhelm Ritter discovered that silver chloride was darkened quickly by what radiation present in sunlight?

  • infrared radiation
  • X-rays
  • gamma rays
  • ultraviolet radiation

  • 10. 
    What are scientists counting when they assign an atomic number to an element?

  • isotopes
  • magnetic force
  • protons
  • atomic mass

  • 11. 
    Who is believed to have proposed the concept that atoms of elements can combine to form molecules?

  • J.J. Thomson
  • Amedeo Avogadro
  • Ernest Rutherford
  • Isaac Newton

  • 12. 
    On what does the pitch of a sound depend?

  • frequency of the wave
  • intensity of the wave
  • absence of noise
  • nature of the vibration
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