History of Physics

Andrew Fawcett

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  1. What Greek city in the 6th cenetury BC was the prominent place for philosphers to meet?

    2. Your answer:
    None of these answers
    Athens
    Miletus
    Syene
    Alexandria

  2. What is the Greek word for physics?

    3. Your answer:
    phsikoi
    none of these answers
    physika
    psychics
    fiziks

  3. What does the Greek word for physics mean?

    4. Your answer:
    Physical things
    hard things
    Psychic things
    none of these answers
    Natural things

  4. Who was the first doccumented physicist?

    5. Your answer:
    Pythagorus
    Thales
    Miletus
    none of these answers
    Archimedes

  5. In which country is the ancient city of Miletus situated today?

    6. Your answer:
    Turkey
    Greece
    Italy
    Egypt
    None of these answers

  6. Which Greek god was supposedly the cause of earthquakes?

    7. Your answer:
    Poseidon
    Mars
    Neptune
    Mercury
    None of these answers

  7. What mathematical method that translates "earth" and "measurement" did the Greeks devise around 300BC?

    8. Your answer:
    Trigonometry
    none of these answers
    Geometry
    Calculus
    Algebra

  8. Which greek who came from the island of Samos was a member in the order of the triad?

    9. Your answer:
    Pythagorus
    none of these answers
    Eratosthenes
    Archimedes
    Aristarchus

  9. Which Greek came up with the basic idea of the atom saying that particles existed that were "immutable and incorruptable"?

    10. Your answer:
    Thales
    none of these answers
    Eratosthenes
    Aristarchus
    Democritus

  10. Which egyptian city in 300BC became the powerhouse of philosphy and learning?

    11. Your answer:
    Luxor
    None of these answers
    Alexandria
    Cairo
    Thebes

  11. Who said that it is the "natural state" of objects to be at rest or go around in circles?

    12. Your answer:
    Aristotle
    Homer
    Plato
    Ptolemy
    none of these answers

  12. Which Greek supposedly said "eureka" when he came up with an idea (density) which could be used to prove whether a king's crown was made of gold or not?

    13. Your answer:
    Eurlises
    none of these answers
    Euler
    Archimedes
    Pythagorus

  13. Which Greek in the second century BC determined the size of the earth using a vertical stick?

    14. Your answer:
    none of these answers
    Eratosthenes
    Thales
    Aristarchus
    Democritus

  14. Which Greek imagined the sun-centered solar system

    15. Your answer:
    none of these answers
    Eratosthenes
    Democritus
    Pythagorus
    Aristarchus

  15. In 1530 this astronomer held a radical belief that the earth went around the sun. Who was he?

    16. Your answer:
    Copernicus
    Newton
    Galileo
    Hooke
    none of these answers

  16. Who used experimentation not logic in 1632 to refute popular Aristotelian viewpoints?

    17. Your answer:
    Galileo
    Newton
    none of these answers
    Einstein
    De Vinci

  17. Greek who measured the distance from the Earth to the moon?

    18. Your answer:
    Democritus
    None of these answers
    Thales
    Aristarchus
    Eratosthenes

  18. Who formulated the laws of motion that lie at the heart of almost every physics problem?

    19. Your answer:
    Hawking
    Galileo
    Newton
    Einstein
    None of these answers

  19. Which is a theory that is included in the "New Physics" or modern physics?

    20. Your answer:
    Dynamics
    Relativity
    Fluid Mechanics
    Kinematics
    none of these answers

  20. The scientific method is a procedure for answering questions about the world by testing educated guesses which can be called...

    21. Your answer:
    Hypotheses
    Theories
    Observations
    none of these
    Laws

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