Quick Recall Flashcards
This question requires a multiple answer. The purpose of a famous experiment was to determine the velocity of the Earth with respect to luminiferous ether using an interferometer. Name the two Nobel Prize-winning physicists who observed no change in the interference pattern of light as the interferometer was rotated through an angle of 90 degrees.
(ALBERT) MICHELSON AND (EDWARD) MORLEY
What scientist, in his 1915 work The Origin of the Continents and Oceans, proposed the theory of continental drift, now incorporated into the unified theory of plate tectonics?
(ALFRED) WEGENER [VAY-gun-er]
What chemist was honored for his pioneering work in stoichiometry by having the number 6.02 times 10 to the 23rd named after him?
(AMADEO) AVOGADRO
When examining a cross-section of a woody plant, what feature reveals the growth for a single year?
(ANNUAL) RING
Niels Bohr concluded that it’s radius is 53 picometers times its energy level. Name this region of space, identified by four quantum numbers, which gives the approximate location of an electron orbiting an atom.
(ATOMIC) ORBITAL
His surname by birth was “Von lime,” but he has his name Latinizied in the scholarly fashion of time. Identify this eighteenth-century Swedish professor, physician, and naturalist who developed the binomial system for naming species of organisms.
(CAROLUS or CARL) LINNAEUS
In an attempt to allow scientists to refer to the same organism by the same name, what 18th century biologist developed a system of binomial nomenclature?
(CAROLUS) LINNAEUS
This early Alexandrian astronomer was the first to design a complete system that accurately predicted planetary motions. Identify the author of the first professional astronomy textbook, Almagest, in which he proposed a geocentric model of the universe.
(CLADIUS) PTOLEMY
Which class of hydrocarbons has exactly one double bond somewhere in the structure?
(CYCLO) ALKENE(S) [AL-keen]
What chemical law states that the sum of the pressure of each individual gas in a mixture equals the total pressure of the mixture of gases?
(DALTON’S LAW OF) PARTIAL PRESSURES
In 1682, what astronomer saw a comet and predicted that it would again be visible in 1758, or 76 years later?
(EDMOND) HALLEY
He was a bitter rival of Robert Oppenheimer, as he suggested using fusion rather than fission in the production of weaponry. His ideas were vindicated by the 1952 detonation of his device. Who is this “Father of the Hydrogen bomb”?
(EDWARD) TELLER
Which 19th century Swiss Chemist discovered that when reactions are combined, the heat of reactions for the combine reaction is the sum of the individual heats if reactions.
(G.H.) HESS
Who was the American chemist who, working with Irving Langmuir [LANG-myer] to research the structure of atoms, developed the electron dot diagram called by his name?
(GILBERT NEWTON) LEWIS
If one multiplies the mass of an object by acceleration due to gravity, g, and multiplies the product by the object’s distance above Earth’s surface, then what is being calculated?
(GRAVITATIONAL) POTENTIAL ENERGY
