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THE TUESDAY TOAST - S02E04

 The TTT Team is here again to get you hyped up with some interesting physics trivia!!! 🤓🤓🤓

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1. Which was the first interstellar object discovered near earth? The object was first thought to be a comet.  However, it was later classified as an asteroid.

Options: 

  1. Ceres

  2. Hygiea

  3. Borisov

  4. Oumuamua


2. Count Rumford in 1798 observed that the boring of cannons (drilling a hole in the muzzle) produces a large amount of X. By experiments based on the same phenomenon he was able to boil water. No explanation based on the then understood nature of X could explain the observations satisfactorily. It was then first realized that X is a form of Y and not a material substance. What are X and Y?

Options: 

  1. X- Heat , Y- Energy

  2. X- Sound, Y - Energy

  3. X- Vibrations, Y- Energy

  4. X- Energy, Y- Heat

 

3. In this method of calculating pi, we throw random points on a square with an inner circle and calculate the fraction of points falling in the circle.

Options: 

  1. Chudnovsky Algorithm 

  2. Monte Carlo Simulation

  3. Liu Hui's π algorithm

  4. Borwein's algorithm

4. Who is the author of the standard graduate-level textbook  “Classical Electrodynamics” which is notoriously famous for its level of difficulty? In the third edition of the book,  ___ units were employed instead of the Gaussian unit system, and the writer admitted that he betrayed the agreement with Edward Purcell (author of another undergraduate textbook on the same subject) of supporting each other in the use of Gaussian units.

Options: 

  1. Carl Sagan, CGS units

  2. George Gamow, SI Units

  3. Steven Strogatz, CGS Units

  4. John D Jackson, SI units

5. Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, VIPER  is the name of NASA’s first-ever robotic rover that will touch the moon in 2023. Recently the space agency announced its landing site on the moon. Name the site.

Options: 

  1. Leavitt crater

  2. Haber crater

  3. Apollo crater

  4. Nobile’s crater
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  1. Physics SocietyOctober 27, 2021 at 9:58 AM

    Amswers:

    1.Oumuamua
    2. X - heat, Y - energy
    3.Monte Carlo simulation
    4.John D Jackson, SI units
    5.Nobile’s crater

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