Kinetic: The PhyMath Quiz (Week 5)

This is going to be a weekly quiz on topics from Science and Mathematics. Every week, we will upload 5 questions. The answers to those questions will be uploaded in a week. You can try and answer them in the comments section and later match your answers with the correct ones. While answering questions, try and also mention your name, if not via an account, then at the end of your comment. Answers without names will be removed.

Set 5:

1) An entity X is common between the Nobel prize winners for electron tunneling in semiconductors, the scanning tunneling microscope, and the research on superconductivity. Furthermore, X has a youtube video which is the world's "smallest" movie.  X is more than a century old.  Identify X.

(Question by Deepanshu, I Physics)

2) Physicist X who started out by studying electrical engineering had his colleagues jokingly name X as a unit which meant one word per hour , due to his shy nature. He once said that he owed a lot to his engineering training because it taught him to appreciate Y. Y can be written as a mathematical symbol as well. Physicist Z considers the knowledge of Y the most important part of doing physics. Z is a soviet physicist well known for his notoriously advanced physics textbooks.
Identify X, Y and Z.

(Question by Aklanta, I Physics)

3) An astrophysicist Dr. Brian May (image below) was once described by the famous astronomer Martin Rees as ," I don't know a scientist who looks as much like X as you do", while physicist Y is almost synonymous with 'Genius'. Apart from physics, Brian May and Y also have music in common. While May found fame with his guitar, Y found solace in violin. Identify X and Y.

(Question by Shalika, I Physics)

4) Over the years, the term X has become a metaphor used in different contexts. The original usage referred to the best known, most heavily armed, fastest or the first one.

The use of this term by the college boards in the United States as the phrase 'X universities' or 'X institutions' and is used to portray elitism and boast about being the largest or the best financed. Although people try and discourage its usage but its usage in official contexts still remains prevalent at times. X degrees in Physics at some institutes are mostly accompanied by an extra year for research abroad.

ID X.

(Question by Chaitanya, II Physics)

5) X is known for screws, taking baths and conical helixes projected onto planes.

ID X.

(Question by 'We-at-Kinetic-are-all-about-quality-not-quantity Rudra', II Physics)

 

Answers for Set 4:

1) X- Edwin Hubble, Y- Albert Einstein, Z- Hubble Space Telescope

2) X- Sheldon Cooper, Y- Richard Feynman

3) Spinning down with the trajectory being a Fibonacci Spiral

4) X- Solvay

5) Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock

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