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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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