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|    Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader    |
|    Re: QFTCIBSI23 Game 8, Rounds 7-8: laws,    |
|    31 Aug 23 20:34:27    |
      From: esquel@sommarskog.se              Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:       > * 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?              Entrophy              > 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.              Derivate and integral              > 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              > 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?              Four              > 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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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