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  • 1. What concept did 19th-century physicists use to try to explain inertia and mass?
A) Gravitational waves
B) Kinetic friction
C) Thermal expansion
D) Electromagnetic fields
  • 2. Who suggested a direct proportionality between electromagnetic energy and an equivalent mass in 1900?
A) Richard Feynman
B) Albert Einstein
C) Henri Poincaré
D) Emmy Noether
  • 3. Friedrich Hasenöhrl extended the study of electromagnetic mass to what?
A) Luminiferous aether
B) Chemical potential
C) Cavity radiation
D) Atomic fusion
  • 4. What was the unresolved inconsistency in Friedrich Hasenöhrl's calculation regarding apparent mass?
A) A numerical prefactor of 4/3
B) An incorrect speed of light
C) The absence of a vacuum
D) A negative energy value
  • 5. Early attempts to link energy and mass relied on the assumption of what?
A) Constant density
B) A luminiferous aether
C) Infinite gravity
D) Absolute zero temperature
  • 6. Whose 1905 analysis removed the restriction of electromagnetic mechanisms from mass-energy equivalence?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Richard Feynman
C) Emmy Noether
D) Henri Poincaré
  • 7. What happens to the mass of a body when it emits or absorbs energy, according to Einstein's special relativity?
A) Its mass disappears
B) Its mass increases infinitely
C) Its mass changes
D) Its mass remains constant
  • 8. What is the famous mass-energy equivalence formula established by Einstein?
A) E=m2c
B) E=mc2
C) E=m/c2
D) E=mc
  • 9. Who proved that the law of conservation of energy is a consequence of time-translation symmetry?
A) Friedrich Hasenöhrl
B) Emmy Noether
C) Richard Feynman
D) Henri Poincaré
  • 10. According to Noether's theorem, energy is conserved because laws of physics do not distinguish between what?
A) Different spatial dimensions
B) Different types of matter
C) Different moments of time
D) Different observers
  • 11. Where was Richard Feynman giving a lecture when he discussed the concept of energy in 1961?
A) University of Cambridge
B) Max Planck Institute
C) Princeton University
D) California Institute of Technology
  • 12. How did Richard Feynman describe the conservation of energy law?
A) As a variable numerical value
B) As an abstract mathematical principle
C) As a concrete mechanical description
D) As a disproven hypothesis
  • 13. In the context of Feynman's lecture, what does the law of conservation of energy state?
A) Energy is constantly created by nature
B) Energy is a physical object
C) The quantity of energy depends on the observer's speed
D) A specific numerical quantity does not change
  • 14. What did Henri Poincaré state that electromagnetic radiation carries?
A) Electrical charge
B) Magnetic flux
C) Thermal inertia
D) Momentum
  • 15. What year did Emmy Noether prove the relationship between conservation laws and symmetry?
A) 1961
B) 1900
C) 1918
D) 1905
  • 16. In which century did the conservation of energy become a central concept?
A) 20th century
B) 19th century
C) 18th century
D) 17th century
  • 17. What Greek word is the origin of the word energy?
A) Dynamis
B) Energeia
C) Physikos
D) Kineticos
  • 18. Which thinker first used the term 'energeia' in the 4th century BCE?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Aristotle
  • 19. What was the term used by Leibniz to describe what we now call kinetic energy?
A) Work
B) Potentiality
C) Vis viva
D) Momentum
  • 20. Who published 'Institutions de Physique' in 1740?
A) Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis
B) Émilie du Châtelet
C) Thomas Young
D) Daniel Bernoulli
  • 21. Who introduced the concept of work in 1829?
A) Jean-Victor Poncelet
B) Thomas Young
C) Isaac Newton
D) Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis
  • 22. Who was the first to use the term energy to refer to kinetic energy in its modern sense?
A) Thomas Young
B) Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis
C) Daniel Bernoulli
D) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • 23. In which work did Daniel Bernoulli extend the vis viva principle to fluids?
A) Institutions de Physique
B) Metaphysics
C) Hydrodynamica
D) Novum Organon
  • 24. Which field introduced quantized energy levels?
A) Thermodynamics
B) Quantum mechanics
C) Metaphysics
D) Classical mechanics
  • 25. According to the text, what was Newton's taught view on the quantity of motion?
A) Proportional to acceleration
B) Proportional to velocity
C) Proportional to velocity squared
D) Proportional to mass squared
  • 26. What historical development drove the need for formulas describing thermal efficiency?
A) Internal combustion engines
B) Nuclear reactors
C) Electrical generators
D) Steam engines
  • 27. Who coined the term 'potential energy' in 1853?
A) James Prescott Joule
B) Sadi Carnot
C) William Rankine
D) William Thomson
  • 28. In what decade did William Thomson and William Rankine replace older mechanical language?
A) 1850s
B) 1880s
C) 1780s
D) 1820s
  • 29. Who amalgamated laws into the laws of thermodynamics?
A) Émile Clapeyron
B) William Thomson
C) Rudolf Clausius
D) Hermann von Helmholtz
  • 30. Which term did Rudolf Clausius mathematically formulate?
A) Entropy
B) Caloric
C) Potential energy
D) Kinetic energy
  • 31. Who introduced the laws of radiant energy?
A) Josiah Willard Gibbs
B) Sadi Carnot
C) Jožef Stefan
D) Walther Nernst
  • 32. Which of the following was an amateur who contributed to the study of energy?
A) William Thomson
B) Rudolf Clausius
C) Julius Robert von Mayer
D) Émile Clapeyron
  • 33. What was the dynamical theory of heat also known as?
A) Caloric theory
B) Radiant mechanics
C) Energetics
D) Potential dynamics
  • 34. When did the term 'thermodynamics' generally become the standard name for the science of energy transformations?
A) At the beginning of the 19th century
B) In the 1880s
C) After the 1920s
D) In the 1850s
  • 35. According to the text, what was the early hypothesized substance of energy called?
A) The dynamic
B) The potential
C) The caloric
D) The entropy
  • 36. Who were the three scientists mentioned in the context of explaining chemical processes using energy?
A) Stefan, Clapeyron, and Helmholtz
B) Clausius, Gibbs, and Nernst
C) Carnot, Joule, and Mayer
D) Thomson, Rankine, and Young
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