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