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   Joshua Kreitzer to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCISG24 Game 5, Rounds 7-8: Mt. Pl   
   22 Nov 24 22:22:09   
   
   From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 11/22/2024 1:24 AM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 7 - Canadiana - Mt. Pleasant Cemetery   
   >   
   > Mt. Pleasant Cemetery is one of Canada's most historic cemeteries,   
   > the final resting place of many prominent Canadians -- including   
   > the following ten.  Name them.   
   >   
   > 8. Name either of the two Canadian prime ministers buried in   
   >     Mt. Pleasant.  One died in 1950, the other in 2020.   
      
   Mulroney (?)   
      
   > 9. He shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery   
   >     of insulin.  At the age of 32, he remains the youngest winner   
   >     of that award.  He died in a plane crash in 1941.   
      
   Banting; Best   
      
   > 10. He was among the most famous and celebrated pianists of   
   >     the 20th century.  After his death in 1982, the first few bars   
   >     of Bach's Goldberg Variations were carved on his grave marker.   
   >     That grave is among the most-visited in Mt. Pleasant.   
      
   Glenn Gould   
      
   > * Game 5, Round 8 - Science - Laws and Principles   
   >   
   > Laws and principles abound in science.  We will describe these   
   > laws or principles to be identified from the handout list:   
   >   
   >          1. Ampere's Law   
   >          2. Archie's Law   
   >          3. Archimedes's Principle   
   >          4. Avogadro's Law   
   >          5. Bernoulli's Principle   
   >          6. Boyle's Law   
   >          7. Charles's Law   
   >          8. Coulomb's Law   
   >          9. Curie's Law   
   >         10. First Law of Thermodynamics   
   >         11. Gauss's Law   
   >         12. Gay-Lussac's Law   
   >         13. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle   
   >         14. Hooke's Law   
   >         15. Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion   
   >         16. Kepler's First Law   
   >         17. Law of Conservation of Mass   
   >         18. Le Chatelier's Principle   
   >         19. Moore's Law   
   >         20. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation   
   >         21. Newton's Third Law of Motion   
   >         22. Ohm's Law   
   >         23. Pauli Exclusion Principle   
   >         24. Planck's Law   
   >         25. Principle of Wave-Particle Duality   
   >         26. Snell's Law   
   >   
   > Answer with either the number or the full name as shown above.   
   > Answers do not repeat.   
   >   
   > 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 Law of Universal Gravitation   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Boyle'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).   
      
   Ampere's Law   
      
   > 5. This law states that energy may not be created or destroyed.   
      
   Law of Conservation of Mass   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Hooke's Law   
      
   > 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 Third Law of Motion   
      
   > 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   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   A policeman pulls over Heisenberg on the highway.   
   Policeman: "Do you know how fast you were going?"   
   Heisenberg: "No. But I know exactly where I am!"   
   Policeman: "I just clocked you going 85 miles an hour."   
   Heisenberg: "Oh, this is awful. Now I'm completely lost!"   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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