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General Physics Trivia

From Newton's falling apple to Einstein’s spooky action, prove you’re smart enough to understand the universe without having an existential crisis.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

Defined as the rate at which an object covers distance, what term describes how fast something is moving regardless of its direction?

Speed

Introduced in 1913, Niels Bohr is famous for developing a namesake planetary model of what fundamental unit of matter?

The atom

According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, in which direction does heat spontaneously flow between two objects of different temperatures?

Hot to cold

To reduce glare reflected from surfaces like water or roads, polarized sunglasses are designed to specifically block light vibrating in which orientation?

Horizontal

Often found on the back of credit cards, what iron-based band stores encoded data that is accessed when the card is swiped through a reader?

Magnetic stripe