Round 5……..

Main Contest 2017

Contest 1
1. I am a ubiquitous particle remarkable for the variety of matter in which I am found.
2. I am not a fundamental particle.
3. Indeed, I am made up of two well-known particles,
4. one of which is a fundamental particle.
5. My spectral emission lines are described by the Ritz combination principle.
6. I am the subject of Bohr’s model.
Who am I?
Ans: Hydrogen

Contest 2
1. I am a type of electric circuit.
2. I am named for a hinged device whose function is to close an opening.
3. I am characterized by a set of inputs whose states determine my output.
4. My simplest kind has only one input and one output.
5. I am the electrical realization of the operators in Boolean algebra.
6. Everything about me is logical.
Who am I?
Ans: Logic gate

Contest 3
1. I am a property of a periodic propagating disturbance.
2. Therefore, I am a property of a wave.
3. I describe a relationship that can exist between particle displacement and wave propagation
direction in a mechanical wave.
4. I am only applicable to waves for which displacement is perpendicular to the direction of
wave propagation.
5. I am that property of an electromagnetic wave which is demonstrated using a Polaroid film.
Who am I?
Ans: Polarization

Contest 4
1. I am a tubular device that usually contains a gas at low pressure.
2. I have a central electrode wire
3. which is held at a high potential relative to the case of the device.
4. Ions are produced when suitable particles enter a window that I have.
5. In this way, I indicate the presence and intensity of ionizing radiation.
Who am I?
Ans: Geiger-Müller tube

Contest 5
1. My name has been used for electricity.
2. And persons capable of accomplishing much are said to have lots of me.
3. But I am simply a physical quantity.
4. I am to work what jerk is to acceleration.
5. Work is to me what displacement is to velocity.
Who am I?
Ans: Power
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Contest 6
1. I am a type of logic gate.
2. My output is high when all my inputs are low.
3. My output is low when all my inputs are high.
4. My output is again high when at least one input is low.
5. If my output is only low when all my inputs are high
What type of gate am I?
Ans: NAND

Contest7
1. I am a physical quantity you may have first encountered in your study of mechanics.
2. I have dimensions of work
3. But the joule is not my SI unit.
4. I quantify the turning effect of a force.
5. I am to force what angular momentum is to linear momentum.
Who am I?
Ans: Torque

Contest 8
1. I am a type of spectrum emitted by matter.
2. I am also observed in absorption spectra.
3. I am characterized by discreteness,
4. Because of which I can form series.
5. For hydrogen, portions of me form series that are given names such as Lyman, Balmer, and
so on.
Who am I?
Ans: Line spectrum

Contest 9
1. I am a city near the border between Ukraine and Belarus.
2. I gained world-wide notoriety for an event which occurred April 26, 1986.
3. Since then, I have been associated with the world’s most catastrophic nuclear power event.
4. That event showed that a major nuclear accident at one location can spread radioactive
contaminants throughout the world.
5. Today, I am a ghost town, a tourist destination, and a wildlife haven.
Who am I?
Ans: Chernobyl

Contest10
1. I am a type of surface.
2. I can be a plane surface, a spherical surface, or a cylindrical surface.
3. Indeed, I can have complicated geometry.
4. I am a surface in a region where an electric field exists.
5. No work is done when a point charge is moved from one point on me to another.
6. Wherever you find yourself on me, the value is the same.
Who am I?
Ans: Equipotential surface
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Contest 11
1. Thrust, field, current:
2. Thumb, first finger, second finger!
3. I am only a rule,
4. A left-handed rule.
5. I determine direction relationships for an electric motor.
Who am I?
Ans: Fleming left hand rule

Contest 12
1. I am an object which under ideal conditions may follow a path that is a conic section.
2. In some common cases you have witnessed, my path is a parabola.
3. I am the object of study in ballistics.
4. I am that which is launched into space.
5. I am a projected object.
Who am I?
Ans: Projectile

Contest 13
1. I am a force.
2. You would be right in calling me the force
3. Because I am everywhere you look.
4. I am electromagnetic.
5. I specify the force on a charged particle
6. Moving in a region where both electric and magnetic fields may be present.
Who am I?
Ans: Lorentz force

Contest 14
1. I am an experiment
2. That was the first to directly demonstrate quantization of atomic energies.
3. I bear the names of the two gentlemen, James and Gustav,
4. Who first carried me out.
5. In a student laboratory, I come as a tube with cathode and anode and all
6. So that electrons undergo inelastic collisions with atoms only at particular energies.
Who am I?
Ans: Frank-Hertz experiment

Contest 15
1. I am a scalar quantity closely associated with a particular vector quantity.
2. I am an electromagnetic quantity.
3. I am featured in Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction.
4. Induced emfs equal my rate of decrease.
5. My SI unit is the weber.
Who am I?
Ans: Magnetic flux
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Contest 16
1.I am a physical property of a material.
2.I am closely associated with speed;
3.However, I am a dimensionless quantity.
4.I characterize the change in velocity an electromagnetic wave undergoes when it crosses the
boundary between two media.
5. I am the ratio of speed of light in vacuum to speed of light in a medium.
Who am I?
Ans: Refractive index

Contest17
1. I am a phenomenon that occurs in close association with change.
2. Indeed, you only observe me when change is occurring.
3. I am an inductive phenomenon.
4. I produce electromagnetic fields.
5. I am the principle underlying the operation of a transformer.
Who am I?
Ans: Electromagnetic induction

Contest 18
1. I am a phenomenon that occurs in damped oscillatory systems.
2. I am observed in driven oscillatory systems.
3. I am characterized by large amplitude oscillations.
4. Those large amplitude oscillations are most prominent at a specific driving frequency.
5. I am credited with the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
Who am I?
Ans: Resonance

Contest 19
1. I am a periodic disturbance
2. That propagates in a direction parallel to the oscillatory motion I produce.
3. I am therefore a wave phenomenon.
4. I only propagate in material media: in gases, liquids, and solids.
5. If you can hear me,
Who am I?
Ans: Sound

Contest 20
1. I am a property of a moving object.
2. My value depends on the mass of the moving object.
3. I change when a force does work on an object.
4. I am the energy possessed by an object because of its motion.
5. At low speeds of an object, I am proportional to the square of the object’s speed.
Who am I?
Ans: Kinetic energy
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Contest 21
1. I am an object of many parts.
2. I am an idealization.
3. Distance between any two parts of me never varies.
4. I am incapable of deformation.
5. I am that body whose elastic modulus is infinite.
Who am I?
Ans: Rigid body

Contest 22
1. I am an object that transmits electromagnetic radiation.
2. I transform a plane wave front into a wave front that converges towards a point;
3. And I transform a spherical wave front centered on that same point into a plane wave.
4. You own two of me, each of which is rather more sophisticated than the version of me you
encounter in physics laboratories.
5. I am the eye of a camera.
Who am I?
Ans: Converging lens

Contest 23
1. I am a process in which energy is transmitted between two regions.
2. I am also a process in which energy is emitted from an object.
3. Further, I am the energetic emissions that emanate from an object.
4. I can be particulate or electromagnetic in nature.
5. I am the principal mode of energy transfer from the sun to the planets.
Who am I?
Ans: Radiation

Contest 24
1. I am a force but I am not a vector quantity
2. And my SI unit is not the newton.
3. Yet I am associated with motion.
4. I am the line integral of the electric field.
5. I am the rate of decrease of magnetic flux.
Who am I?
Ans: Electromotive force

Contest 25
1. I am a phenomenon that occurs at the boundary between two media.
2. I also occur in a medium whose density is not uniform.
3. I am the change in direction of propagation of a wave that occurs because of differences in
propagation velocity at different points.
4. I occur in such a manner that the waves and normal at a boundary all lie in the same plane.
5. I am the deflection that occurs when light passes from one medium into another of different
propagation speed.
Who am I?
Ans: Refraction
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Contest 26
1. I am an interference phenomenon.
2. I am characterized by periodic variations in wave amplitude.
3. I occur when waves of slightly different frequency are superposed.
4. I am characterized by a frequency which equals the detuning between the superposed waves.
5. I am what you hear when two notes of slightly different frequency are sounded together.
Who am I?
Ans: Beats

Contest27
1. I am a physical property of a rigid body.
2. I have the dimension of the product of mass and length squared.
3. I am a measure of the tendency of a body to resist changes in its rotational state.
4. I relate angular velocity and rotational kinetic energy.
5. I am the ratio of angular momentum to angular velocity.
Who am I?
Ans: Moment of inertia

Contest28
1. I am a theorem in mechanics
2. That is named after a French scientist named Bernard.
3. I apply to the equilibrium state of an object.
4. I give the relationship between three coplanar concurrent forces that act on a body in
equilibrium.
5. I recall the sine rule.
Who am I?
Ans: Lami’s theorem

Contest 29
1. I am a German scientist
2. Who deduced the nature of planetary orbits.
3. I discovered three empirical laws that accurately describe planetary motion.
4. One of my laws gives the geometry of the orbit of a planet.
5. Another one of my three laws relates orbital period of a planet to a linear dimension of the
orbit.
Who am I?
Ans: Johannes Kepler

Contest 30
1. I am a phenomenon associated with waves.
2. I occur for both transverse and longitudinal waves.
3. I account for differences between the wavelength of a spectral line emitted by a stationary
and a moving atom of the same element.
4. I am exploited in a device for determining the speed of vehicles travelling on a highway.
5. I am the phenomenon in which an approaching siren sounds different from a receding siren
that sounds the same note as the approaching one.
Who am I?
Ans: Doppler effect
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Contest31
1. I am a property of an atomic nucleus.
2. I am not the atomic number of the nucleus
3. Neither am I the mass number of the nucleus.
4. But I am determined by both the atomic number and the neutron number of the nucleus.
5. I am the difference between the mass of a nucleus and the total mass of the nucleons it
contains.
Who am I?
Ans: Mass defect

Contest32
1. I am a model of the atom
2. That was proposed in 1904
3. soon after the discovery of the electron.
4. I predate the discovery of the nucleus
5. so I can be forgiven for likening the positive charge distribution in an atom to soup or
pudding.
Who am I?
Ans: Thomson model

Contest33
1. I am a parameter used in the description of collision phenomena.
2. I am attributed to Isaac Newton.
3. I am a dimensionless parameter
4. With a value of unity for perfectly elastic collisions.
5. I am the ratio of the relative velocity after a collision between two particles to the relative
velocity before the collision.
Who am I?
Ans: Coefficient of restitution

Contest34
1. I am a tension.
2. Not the axial load in a rod or the tension in a string but a tension all the same.
3. I operate on the surface of liquids.
4. I am responsible for the phenomenon of capillary rise.
5. I am the force per unit length that acts perpendicular to a line drawn on the surface of a
liquid.
Who am I?
Ans: Surface tension

Contest 35
1. I am a property of a material.
2. I have the same dimension and SI unit as pressure.
3. I am the stress at the peak of a stress-strain curve.
4. For ductile materials, I occur before fracture.
5. I am ultimate.
Who am I?
Ans: Ultimate Tensile Strength
(Or tensile strength)
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Contest 36
1. I am a physical property of a substance.
2. I am a measure of the ability of a material to conduct electricity.
3. I am the ratio of electric current density to electric field strength.
4. For most metals, my value decreases as temperature increases.
5. The SI unit of my reciprocal is Ω m.
Who am I?
Ans: Electrical conductivity

Contest37
1. I am a quantity that characterizes propagation of electromagnetic waves.
2. I am a dimensionless number
3. Which for a given material varies with wavelength.
4. My dependence on wavelength gives rise to chromatic dispersion.
5. I am the property of a material that determines the degree to which a ray is bent on passing
from vacuum into the medium.
Who am I?
Ans: Refractive index

Contest38
1. I am a type of material that is distinguished by band gap size.
2. I cease to conduct electricity at absolute zero
3. Because at absolute zero, my valence band is full whereas my conduction band is empty.
4. My electrical conductivity increases as temperature is increased from absolute zero.
5. I am the type of material that is used in fabricating active electronic devices.
Who am I?
Ans: Semiconductor

Contest39
1. I am a relatively weak fundamental force.
2. Unlike the weak force, I am not implicated in any decay processes.
3. I am a long-range force
4. And I obey an inverse-square law.
5. I am the fundamental force that is responsible for the attractive interaction between photons
and massive objects.
Who am I?
Ans: Gravity
(Or gravitation)

Contest40
1. I am electromagnetic radiation
2. Emitted by a charged particle as it decelerates and loses energy in the field of another
charged particle.
3. Because of this, my name contains the German word for braking.
4. I am characterized by a continuous spectrum.
5. I accompany characteristic x-rays emitted from an x-ray tube.
Who am I?
Ans: Bremsstrahlung