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   Joshua Kreitzer to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIBSI23 Game 8, Rounds 7-8: laws,   
   30 Aug 23 17:48:56   
   
   From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 12:31:05 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
       
   > * Game 8, Round 7 - Science - Laws & Theorems    
   >    
   > 1. Newton's Second law of Motion is commonly stated as "*what    
   > quantity* equals the product of mass and acceleration"?    
      
   force   
       
   > 2. What measure of disorder, denoted S, always increases within    
   > a closed system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?    
      
   entropy   
      
   > 3. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse based around the sun.    
   > This is the first of *which German astronomer's* laws of    
   > planetary motion?    
      
   Kepler   
      
   > 4. The Pythagorean theorem is often presented as "a² + b² = c²".    
   > In this formulation, c represents a line segment designated by    
   > what 10n-letter word?    
      
   hypotenuse   
      
   > 5. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus lays out the relationship    
   > between two operations on a function. One describes the slope    
   > of the tangent to the function and the other calculates the    
   > area under a curve. Name *either* operation.    
      
   integration   
      
   > 6. A chemistry law often presented as PV = nRT relates the pressure,    
   > volume, number of moles, and temperature of *what class of    
   > substances with a two-word name*?    
      
   ideal gases   
      
   > 7. The idea that any pair of conjugate quantities, like position    
   > and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured with exact    
   > precision is a principle commonly named after which German    
   > physicist?    
      
   Heisenberg   
      
   > 8. The No-Hair Theorem states that *which astronomical objects*    
   > can be entirely characterized by their mass, charge, and    
   > angular momentum? Katie Bouman's work was key to the creation    
   > of a 2019 image of one of these objects.    
      
   black hole   
      
   > 9. In 1976, Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken used a computer to    
   > prove that it takes a maximum of how many colors to color the    
   > countries on a map so that no two adjacent countries share the    
   > same color?    
      
   4   
      
   > 10. A "thesis" jointly named for Alonzo Church and which legendary    
   > British computer scientist effectively states that any problem    
   > is computable if and only if it can be computed using one of    
   > his namesake "machines"?    
      
   Turing   
       
   > * Game 8, Round 8 - Miscellaneous - Cars with Star Billing    
   >    
   > Given a movie or TV show, identify the car that deserved its own    
   > star billing. That means the model, not the individual car.    
   >    
   > 1. "Goldfinger".    
      
   Aston Martin   
      
   > 3. "Dukes of Hazzard".   
      
   Dodge Challenger   
       
   > 4. "Back to the Future".   
      
   DeLorean   
       
   > 5. "The Love Bug".   
      
   Volkswagen Beetle   
       
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
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