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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz
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Who is the author of the book, ‘The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe’?
- George Gamow
- Steven Weinberg
- Roger Penrose
- None of the above
It is a story of the dramatic unfolding of the birth of the universe as we know it during the first three minutes after the Big Bang.
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Roger Penrose is famous for having won the Nobel prize in 2020, for his study of black holes. With whom did he share his prize?
- Stephen Hawking
- Kip Thorne
- Rheinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
- S. Chandrasekhar
Rheinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their independent studies of the massive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way.
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Which of the following lattice structures that represents an aperiodic tiling, that is, one which cannot be reproduced by simply shifting it by any finite distance.
- Square lattice
- Penrose tiling
- Kagome lattice
- Hexagonal lattice
Penrose tiling is a quasi-periodic lattice. It cannot be made to coincide with itself simply by shifting or translating it. It needs to be rotated as well as shifted.
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Historically, what was the first theory that exemplified the principles of statistical mechanics?
- Theory of phase transition
- Kinetic theory of gases
- Theory of disorder
- Theory of heat engines
Kinetic theory of gases, which was a simple model explaining the thermodynamics of a classical gas, and this came of age in the nineteenth century.
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This famous nineteenth century physicist who formulated a statistical explanation for the second law of thermodynamics, shares his first name with Beethoven – ‘Ludwig”. What is his surname?
- Boltzmann
- Nernst
- Maxwell
- Onsager
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844 – 1906) was an Austrian physicist.
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