James Clerk Maxwell - Quiz
A) 1831 B) 1901 C) 1861 D) 1801
A) Astrophysics B) Quantum Mechanics C) Thermodynamics D) Electromagnetism
A) University of Edinburgh B) University of Oxford C) University of Cambridge D) University of Glasgow
A) Red, Green, Blue B) Red, Purple, Green C) Green, Yellow, Blue D) Red, Yellow, Blue
A) Farad B) Weber C) Hertz D) Ohm
A) 1889 B) 1909 C) 1879 D) 1899
A) European Academy of Sciences B) National Academy of Sciences C) American Physical Society D) Royal Society
A) Gravity and Strong Nuclear Force B) Weak Nuclear Force and Electromagnetism C) Electricity and Magnetism D) Gravity and Weak Nuclear Force
A) Telegraph B) Radio C) Television D) Internet
A) Newton's Laws B) Maxwell's Equations C) Ohm's Law D) Schrodinger's Equation
A) English B) Irish C) Scottish D) Welsh
A) 1854 B) 1865 C) 1860 D) 1859
A) Smith’s Prize B) Cavendish Medal C) Nobel Prize D) Adams Prize
A) The second great unification in physics B) The invention of the steam engine C) The first great unification in physics D) The discovery of radio waves
A) James Watt B) Albert Einstein C) Niels Bohr D) Isaac Newton
A) Oxford University B) Marischal College C) King’s College London D) Trinity College, Cambridge
A) Poisson distribution B) Normal distribution C) Binomial distribution D) Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution
A) The first digital photograph B) The first durable colour photograph C) The first panoramic photograph D) The first black and white photograph
A) The quantum model B) The theory of evolution C) The Maxwell model for viscoelastic materials D) The theory of relativity
A) As a critic B) As a historian C) As a student D) As a founder
A) Modern physics B) Classical physics C) Medieval physics D) Ancient physics
A) Quantum B) Relativity C) Chaos D) Entropy
A) Advocate B) Artist C) Farmer D) Civil engineer
A) Cousin B) Son C) Nephew D) Brother
A) Blackburn B) Clerk C) Cay D) Dyce
A) 25 B) 30 C) Nearly 40 D) 45
A) Frances B) Jane C) Elizabeth D) Jemima
A) Middlebie B) Penicuik C) Glenlair, Kirkcudbrightshire D) Edinburgh
A) 750 acres B) 1,500 acres (610 ha) C) 2,000 acres D) 500 acres
A) "Tell me more" B) "How does it work?" C) "What's the go o' that?" D) "Show me how it doos"
A) William Dyce Cay B) Robert Hodshon Cay C) Jemima Blackburn D) John Clerk Maxwell
A) His mother, Frances B) A hired tutor C) His father D) His aunt Isabella
A) 20 years old B) 22 years old C) 16 years old D) 18 years old
A) James Forbes B) Lewis Campbell C) Peter Guthrie Tait D) Robert Davidson
A) 1843 B) 1842 C) 1841 D) 1840
A) His aunt Isabella B) His father C) His older cousin Jemima D) His mother, Frances
A) Maxwell B) Tate C) Einstein D) Heaviside
A) Colin Mackenzie B) Professor Lewis Campbell C) George Edward Paget D) William Garnett
A) Peter Guthrie Tait B) Lewis Campbell C) Robert Davidson D) James Forbes
A) In Parton Kirk B) In Cambridge University Chapel C) At the Cavendish Laboratory D) Near the choir screen at Westminster Abbey
A) Albert Einstein B) Isaac Newton C) Thomas Sutton D) Niels Bohr
A) 1865 B) 1861 C) 1881 D) 1873
A) Daftie B) Genius C) Smartie D) Bookworm
A) The luminiferous aether B) Vector analysis C) Maxwell's equations D) The concept of force fields
A) Daniel Bernoulli B) John Herapath C) Josiah Willard Gibbs D) Rudolf Clausius
A) £100 B) £130 C) £200 D) £50
A) Thermodynamic equilibrium B) The 'butterfly effect' C) Quantum entanglement D) The theory of relativity
A) Oliver Heaviside B) James Clerk Maxwell C) Albert Einstein D) Peter Guthrie Tate
A) 50 B) 55 C) 60 D) 48
A) 10 hours B) 25 hours C) 20 hours D) 15 hours
A) Focusing only on theology B) Focusing only on mathematics C) Letting nothing be wilfully left unexamined D) Focusing only on physics
A) Cholera B) Smallpox C) Tuberculosis D) Malaria
A) Peter Guthrie Tait B) Rudolf Clausius C) Josiah Willard Gibbs D) Ludwig Boltzmann
A) early 1862 B) 1861 C) 1863 D) 1865
A) Scientific discovery B) Social interactions C) His own willpower D) God's grace
A) Skin cancer B) Lung cancer C) Brain cancer D) Abdominal cancer
A) Magnetic fields B) A vacuum C) A medium called the luminiferous aether D) Electric fields
A) Steam engine regulation B) Heat transport C) Phase transitions D) Viscoelastic materials
A) 1862 B) 1865 C) 1861 D) 1860
A) calculus B) dimensional analysis C) thermodynamics D) quantum mechanics
A) 1875 B) 1865 C) 1882 D) 1890
A) Partial differential equations B) Quaternions C) Scalar potentials D) Vector analysis
A) Albert Einstein B) James Clerk Maxwell C) Michael Faraday D) Isaac Newton
A) They are universally accepted B) They are fully understood by all C) They are irrelevant to modern science D) They are commonly supposed to be 'Tabooed' by the orthodox
A) The SI system B) The Imperial system C) The Metric system D) The CGS system
A) Nature B) PhysicsWeb C) Scientific American D) Science Magazine
A) René Descartes B) Isaac Newton C) Carl Friedrich Gauss D) Leonhard Euler
A) 1860 B) 1862 C) 1865 D) 1861
A) 14 B) 12 C) 15 D) 13
A) Cambridge Philosophical Society B) Royal Society C) Trinity College Society D) Cambridge Apostles
A) 2 June 1858 B) 2 June 1860 C) 2 June 1859 D) 2 June 1857
A) Mathematical mentor B) Senior wrangler-maker C) Math prodigy D) Math genius
A) Third B) Equal with Edward Routh C) Second D) First
A) Edinburgh B) Glenlair C) Aberdeen D) London
A) 1 January 1855 B) 25 December 1855 C) 15 August 1855 D) 10 October 1855
A) A paper on governors B) A treatise on electricity and magnetism C) A plaster thermodynamic visualisation D) A model for viscoelastic materials
A) Maxwell's demon B) The Maxwell-Cattaneo equation C) Maxwell's thermodynamic visualisation D) Maxwell's thermodynamic relations
A) Rationalist B) Positivist C) Empiricist D) Antipositivist
A) Thermodynamics B) Electromagnetism C) Quantum mechanics D) Photoelasticity
A) Violin B) Piano C) Flute D) Guitar
A) Niels Bohr B) Isaac Newton C) Albert Einstein D) George Biddell Airy
A) 1867-1868 B) 1874 C) 1859 D) 1871
A) The Copley Medal B) The Faraday Medal C) The Rumford Medal D) The Nobel Prize
A) Thomas Young B) Isaac Newton C) Albert Einstein D) James Clerk Maxwell
A) The Einstein experiment B) The Faraday experiment C) The Michelson–Morley experiment D) The Maxwell experiment
A) December 1855 B) March 1852 C) June 1850 D) April 1853
A) Social awkwardness B) Public speaking skills C) Charisma D) Outgoing personality
A) Niels Bohr B) Erwin Schrödinger C) Richard Feynman D) Albert Einstein
A) 1879 B) 1876 C) 1871 D) 1865
A) Scientific doubts B) Mathematical errors C) Holy spots D) Theological questions
A) No refraction B) Temporary double refraction produced by shear stress C) Permanent double refraction D) Single refraction |
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