Physics Trivia: What Do You Know?

Physics is a study of the most basic rules of the universe. It has taken the human species thousands of years to figure it out, just enough to know we've only seen the very tip of the iceberg. However, some things we HAVE learned, have you learned it too?
 
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A washing machine uses the principle of...
Centrifugation
Dialysis
Diffusion
 
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Hint
Light travels at minimal speed when passing through...
A vacuum
Water
Air
Glass
 
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Hint
Rain drops acquire a spherical shape due to...
S
r
f
c
T
e
s
o
 
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Does the brightness of a bulb depends on voltage or current?
Voltage
Current
Both voltage and current
 
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Hint
Air pressure is usually highest when the air is...
Warm and dry
Cool and moist
Warm and moist
Cool and dry
 
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Infrared light has a wavelength that is too long or short to be visible for humans?
Too short
Too long
 
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Nuclear sizes are expressed in a unit named...
Tesla
Watt
Fermi
Newton
 
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Hint
What is the irregular and instantaneous motion of air called?
T
r
b
n
c
 
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Hint
Who discovered that a moving magnet generates an electric current known as electromagnetic induction?
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Michael Faraday
Isaac Newton
 
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Sound of frequency below 20 Hz is called...
Supersonic
Infrasonic
Ultrasonic
 
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Cooking in the mountains takes longer than on the plains, because...
In the mountains the atmospheric density is low and therefore a lot of heat is lost to the atmosphere
The atmospheric pressure in the mountains is lower than that in the plains and therefore water boils at a temperature lower than 100C
Due to low atmospheric pressure on the mountains, the water boils at a temperature higher than 100C and therefore water takes longer to boil
 
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Hint
Sound travels at the fastest speed in...
Steel
Air
Vacuum
Water
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