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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCISG24 Game 5, Rounds 7-8: Mt. Pl   
   22 Nov 24 20:01:58   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 5, Round 7 - Canadiana - Mt. Pleasant Cemetery   
      
      
   > * Game 5, Round 8 - Science - Laws and Principles   
   >   
   > 1. This law of planetary motion states that a planet's orbit around   
   >    the Sun is in the shape of an ellipse, with the Sun at one of   
   >    the foci of the ellipse.   
      
   Kepler's first law.   
      
   > 2. This law of physics states that when two bodies interact,   
   >    they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude   
   >    and opposite in direction.  This is often summarized as "for   
   >    every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."   
      
   Newton's Third Law of Motion   
      
   > 3. The Ideal Gas Law relates the pressure, volume, temperature, and   
   >    amount (the number of molecules) of a theoretical gas.  This law   
   >    was derived from four other laws, each relating to a pair of the   
   >    previously mentioned parameters (pressure, volume, temperature,   
   >    and amount).  Name any of these 4 laws.   
      
   Avogadro's Law   
      
   > 4. This law relates the resistance of an electrical circuit   
   >    to the voltage applied and the current through the circuit.   
   >    (Resistance is equal to voltage divided by current).   
      
   Ohm's Law   
      
   > 5. This law states that energy may not be created or destroyed.   
      
   First Law of Thermodynamics   
      
   > 6. This empirical law states that the force needed to extend   
   >    or compress a spring by some distance scales linearly with that   
   >    distance.  The scientist this law is named after was also one   
   >    of the first people to examine living things on a microscopic   
   >    scale, using a microscope of his own design.   
      
   Le Chatelier's Principle   
      
   > 7. This law, really more of an observation about the complexity   
   >    of electronics, is named after a former CEO of Intel.  It states   
   >    that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles   
   >    about every 2 years.   
      
   Moore's Law   
      
   > 8. This "Law" is the observation that distant galaxies are moving   
   >    away from the Earth at velocities proportional to their distance   
   >    from Earth.   
      
   Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion   
      
   > 9. This law states that the force of gravity between two objects   
   >    is proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely   
   >    proportional to the square of the distance between them.   
      
   Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation   
      
   > 10. This fundamental principle of quantum mechanics states there   
   >    is a limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical   
   >    properties, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously   
   >    known.  In other words, the more accurately one property is   
   >    measured, the less accurately the other property can be known.   
      
   Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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