200 Physics Trivia Questions with Answers
200 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the lowest possible temperature, at which molecular motion stops, called?
Answer
Absolute zero
What is the bending of waves around obstacles or through openings called?
Answer
Diffraction
What is the SI base unit of temperature?
Answer
Kelvin
What quantum principle forbids two electrons in an atom from having identical quantum states?
Answer
Pauli exclusion principle
What principle of quantum mechanics says you cannot know both position and momentum exactly?
Answer
Uncertainty principle
What is the name for the minimum speed needed to escape a planet's gravitational pull?
Answer
Escape velocity
Which physicist formulated the special and general theories of relativity?
Answer
Albert Einstein
What is the SI unit of electric charge?
Answer
Coulomb
Which scientist proposed the three laws of motion published in 1687?
Answer
Isaac Newton
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics?
Answer
Maria Sklodowska-Curie
Who invented the mercury thermometer?
Answer
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Who discovered the neutron and in what year?
Answer
James Chadwick In 1932
Which insect can indicate the air temperature?
Answer
Cricket
Which century was Isaac Newton born in?
Answer
1600's
What's the term used to indicate the speed of a lens?
Answer
F-Stop
What would you use to measure the mass difference between two like objects?
Answer
A balance scale
What was the first sound-recording device called?
Answer
Phonautograph
What was magnetite called by the early Europeans?
Answer
Lodestone
What unit of measurement is one-thousandth of a gram?
Answer
Milligram
What unit is resistance measured in?
Answer
Ohm
What type of switch allows you to reset the circuit?
Answer
Circuit Breaker
What tool uses a magnetic needle that points north?
Answer
Compass