SPRING FALL HUB QUIz(5/3/1016)

AEC Quiz Club

SET-1 SUMANTA SARATHI BORTHAKUR

1.FITB

This is a scientific research paper by B. P. Abbott et al. -

“ Observation of _____ from a binary blackhole merger”

1. Ans: Gravitational Waves

2. Corning experimented with chemically strengthened glass in 1960, as part of a "Project Muscle" initiative. Within a few years they had developed a "muscled glass” marketed as Chemcor. The product was used until the early 1990s in commercial and industrial applications, including automotive, aviation and pharmaceutical uses, notably in approximately one hundred 1968 Dodge Dart and Plymouth Barracuda racing cars, where minimizing the vehicle's weight was essential. Experimentation was revived in 2005, investigating whether the glass could be made thin enough for use in consumer electronics.

What we are talking about?

2 Ans: Gorilla Glass.

3. Connect: Chicgo Memphis Millennium whistler Longhorn Vienna apollo Blue Redstone

3. Ans: Windows OS codenames • Chicago - Windows 95

• Memphis - Windows 98

Millenium – Windows ME

• Whistler - Windows XP

• Longhorn - Windows Vista

• Vienna - Windows 7

• Apollo - Windows Phone 8

• Blue - Windows Phone 8.1

• Redstone - Windows 10

4. What are these collectively known as?

4. Ans: Yoodles

5.Connect:

Ganesh Thakur

Anil kumar jain

K.R. Shridhar

Arati pravakar

5. Ans: Indian-Americans selected to US National Academy of Engineering

6.Lujendra Ojha (pic in next slide) is a graduate student of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta.

"We found the hydrated salts only when the seasonal features were widest, which suggests that either the dark streaks themselves or a process that forms them is the source of the hydration. In either case, the detection of hydrated salts on these slopes means that water plays a vital role in the formation of these streaks," he said.

This led him to which conclusion ??

6. Ans: Mars have water.

As an undergraduate under the direction of planetary geologist Alfred McEwen Alfred , he discovered in the 2010 compelling evidence of water on Mars.

7. This graph depicts a method invented by Frank X and Tony Y. What?

7.Ans: Duckworth- Lewis method. Invented by Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis

8. “A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water….. It follows that the new field of spectroscopy has practically unrestricted scope in the study of problems relating to the structure of matter…. From a physical point of view, the quantitative study of the effect with the simplest molecules holds out the largest hope of fundamental advances.”

Excerpt from what?

8.Ans: C.V. Raman’s Nobel lecture.

9. What has been blanked out?

9. Ans:

10. The Munich physics professor Philipp von Jolly advised X against going into physics, saying, “in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few holes.” His lesser known but equally important work can be traced with the greats of Rayleigh, Jean , Wien and relying heavily on Boltzmann. ID X.

10. Max Plank

11. Identify him and why is he currently in news?

11. Ans: Mohit Goel. MD of Ringing bells.