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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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