Basic Physics Savvy Quiz

Vincent Curry

95% without cheating. I did rush a bit, so perhaps should have spent longer on the two questions I got wrong... I suppose I should admit to having done Mechanical Engineering at University...

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Eurosid

I got 95% as well. :-\ I have engineering degrees, though. Hence my dopey questions in programming forums. :sigh:

Dalek Dave

80% but disagree with Q35. It states the small ampage required to be fatal. OK I buy that. It also asks if a car battery can electrocute. I said YES. It said the answer was no. The question did not ask whether the battery would FATALLY electrocute. I speak from experience here, Car batteries give a hell of a wallop! Maybe not fatal , but electrocution nonetheless! Bad Question! Other than that I am appalled at the ones I got wrong! (2.2 in Physics and I missed a couple of pearlers!) :)

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Lost User

Dalek Dave wrote:

Maybe not fatal , but electrocution nonetheless!

Ummmm... me thinks electrocution is fatal by definition[^]

Dalek Dave

Ah thats just facts, you can prove anything with facts! I have been electrocuted several times, car batteries and household electrics. To define it as death is like saying hanging is fatal. Mediaeval Punishment was often Hanging until not quite dead before drawing and quartering,(ok these were the fatal bits. As you're an American, perhaps you can answer me this, is Electrocution still used as a death penalty in The States?

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R Giskard Reventlov

I got 62.5% by randomly selecting true/false without reading the questions.

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Lost User

Electrocution is currently an optional form of execution in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Virginia. In Kentucky and Tennessee, the electric chair has been retired except for those whose capital crimes were committed prior to 1998. The electric chair is an alternate form of execution approved for potential use in Illinois and Oklahoma if other forms of execution are found unconstitutional in the state at the time of execution.

martin_hughes

Dalek Dave wrote:

I have been electrocuted several times, car batteries and household electrics.

If only you'd put a bit more effort in at Uni and got yourself that 2.1; perhaps you wouldn't have been electrocuted quite so often :)

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Dan Neely

87.5 with 2 misreads.

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Dalek Dave

I so laughed at that! :) Fixing old Cars was never likely to get me an extra mark! And the household electrocution was because I pulled the Correctly Marked Fuse out of the Fusebox, unfortunately whilst it was a correctly marked fuse, it was in the Wrong slot. 240V ac up the jacksy was not my idea of fun! My arm was numb for hours! You are right though, I should have worked harder, but a desmond is better than a third!

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Dalek Dave

Wouldn't a bullet be quicker, cheaper and more environmentally friendly?

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Gary Wheeler

90%. Two of the questions were stated ambiguously (in one, the question treats acceleration as an unsigned quantity). Not bad, given that it's been 28 years since my college physics classes.

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Chris Losinger

72.5 though one was a misreading (thought it said "millimeter" not "milliliter") and one i somehow checked the wrong box. and, i protest the "electrocution" question. it relies on the specific meaning of "electrocution" (always fatal) and not the common usage (any shock will do). not exactly a physics question.

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Brady Kelly

I call subjective! "13) An astronaut orbits the Earth 500 miles above its surface. She appears to be weightless because there is virtually no gravitational force on her. X Your Answer: true" - She does appear to be weightless, where in fact she is not. 30) An atom is just like a tiny solar system in which the nucleus is like the Sun and electrons are like tiny planets orbiting the nucleus in elliptical paths. Your Answer: false - A tough call. What just "just like" mean. No two solar systems are even "just like" each other. I got this one correct, but don't like it. Oh yes, 67.5%. Not too bad for mainly twenty year old school memories - all except the overly emphasized difference between vectors and scalars.

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peterchen

Many of the questions aren't very clear - though considering they can be answered "true" or "false" helps a bit. I didn't fail on these trick questions, though :cool:

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MidwestLimey

Dalek Dave wrote:

And the household electrocution was because I pulled the Correctly Marked Fuse out of the Fusebox, unfortunately whilst it was a correctly marked fuse, it was in the Wrong slot.

Suddenly my paranoia with all things electrical is validated. I always check for a pd before touching anything, even if I was the one that flicked the trip/switch etc. Mr Paranoia has yet to be electrocuted, which is bloody amazing.

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After a while they all bug me :doh:

Patrick Etc

peterchen wrote:

trick questions

There are alot of them. I'd say this "Basic Physics Savvy Quiz" is more an exercise in how well you know the test writer so you know when they're using specific language and when they're not - e.g., more an exercise in how people interpret questions than an emphasis on the questions themselves. Some of the questions are hard to misinterpret. Other questions are designed to be. Nobody who was really trying to gauge your physics savvy would ask questions that way.

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J Dunlap

92.5% - But I'm embarrassed that I answered false to "Under typical conditions, ice melts and water freezes at the same temperature." :-O

Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

82.5 and I got a D for DumbA** in college physics.

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J Dunlap

Brady Kelly wrote:

"13) An astronaut orbits the Earth 500 miles above its surface. She appears to be weightless because there is virtually no gravitational force on her. X Your Answer: true" - She does appear to be weightless, where in fact she is not.

The part that's false is "there is virtually no gravitational force on her" - there is actually quite a bit of gravitational force on her, and if she wasn't moving in orbit, she would be falling to a fiery death. What we call "zero gravity" isn't really zero gravity.