General Knowledge Science Questions ( Physics )
1) Who was the first pre-Socratic philosopher to suggest that matter could neither be created nor destroyed?
Answer: Parmenides.
2) In 1729 AD, Pieter Van Musschenbroek used the term ‘PHYSICS’ for the first time. What was the subject called so far?
Answer: Natural philosophy.
3) Which Greek philosopher suggested that the material world was composed of four basic elements – air, water, fire and earth?
Answer: Empedocles.
4) Who in 1231 was the first to describe the science of optics?
Answer: Robert Grosseteste.
5) Who was burnt to death for suggesting that the sun might be an ordinary star?
Answer: Giordano Bruno.
6) Who in 1643 was the first person to create vacuum above the liquid?
Answer: Evangelista Torricelli.
7) Who in 1786 invented the gold leaf electro scope?
Answer: Abraham Bennet.
8) Who encouraged Newton to write his idea for principia?
Answer: Edmund Halley.
9) Who in 1808 discovered polarization of light and introduced the term ‘Polarization’?
Answer: Etienne-Louis Malus.
10) The first scientist to apply scientific reasoning to cosmology was Rene Descartes. What was his theory called?
Answer: Vortex Theory.
11) In which year did Otto Von Guericke demonstrate his famous Magdeburg experiment dealing vacuum?
Answer: 1672.
12) Who was the first to attack Newton’s Corpuscular theory of light?
Answer: Thomas Young.
13) Who was the first person to design models of flying machine?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.
14) Who in 1749 developed a method for making an artificial magnet?
Answer: John canton.
15) Hydrodynamica gave explanation of Bernoulli’s theorem in 1738. Who was the first to suggest this theorem?
Answer: Daniel Bernoulli.
16) Who invented Leyden jar?
Answer: Pieter Van Musschenbroek and Ewald Georg von Kleist.
17) Which famous Danish physicist in 1675 measured the speed of light?
Answer: Romer.
18) What did Sir William Herschel discover in 1800?
Answer: Infra-red radiation.
19) In which year did G.S. Ohm formulate Ohm’s law?
Answer: 1827.
20) In which year did A. Michelson and E. Morley conduct their experiment to verify the existence of ether?
Answer: 1887.
21) Who in 1939 suggested the name meson for middle-weight particles?
Answer: Homi J. Bhabha.
22) What is the importance of 2nd December 1942?
Answer: The creation of the first controlled chain reaction.
23) Which philosopher conjectured that if the moon did not move, it would fall upon the earth?
Answer: Anaxagoras.
24) Who said, “A bird is an instrument working according to the mathematical laws”?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.
1) Who was the first pre-Socratic philosopher to suggest that matter could neither be created nor destroyed?
Answer: Parmenides.
2) In 1729 AD, Pieter Van Musschenbroek used the term ‘PHYSICS’ for the first time. What was the subject called so far?
Answer: Natural philosophy.
3) Which Greek philosopher suggested that the material world was composed of four basic elements – air, water, fire and earth?
Answer: Empedocles.
4) Who in 1231 was the first to describe the science of optics?
Answer: Robert Grosseteste.
5) Who was burnt to death for suggesting that the sun might be an ordinary star?
Answer: Giordano Bruno.
6) Who in 1643 was the first person to create vacuum above the liquid?
Answer: Evangelista Torricelli.
7) Who in 1786 invented the gold leaf electro scope?
Answer: Abraham Bennet.
8) Who encouraged Newton to write his idea for principia?
Answer: Edmund Halley.
9) Who in 1808 discovered polarization of light and introduced the term ‘Polarization’?
Answer: Etienne-Louis Malus.
10) The first scientist to apply scientific reasoning to cosmology was Rene Descartes. What was his theory called?
Answer: Vortex Theory.
11) In which year did Otto Von Guericke demonstrate his famous Magdeburg experiment dealing vacuum?
Answer: 1672.
12) Who was the first to attack Newton’s Corpuscular theory of light?
Answer: Thomas Young.
13) Who was the first person to design models of flying machine?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.
14) Who in 1749 developed a method for making an artificial magnet?
Answer: John canton.
15) Hydrodynamica gave explanation of Bernoulli’s theorem in 1738. Who was the first to suggest this theorem?
Answer: Daniel Bernoulli.
16) Who invented Leyden jar?
Answer: Pieter Van Musschenbroek and Ewald Georg von Kleist.
17) Which famous Danish physicist in 1675 measured the speed of light?
Answer: Romer.
18) What did Sir William Herschel discover in 1800?
Answer: Infra-red radiation.
19) In which year did G.S. Ohm formulate Ohm’s law?
Answer: 1827.
20) In which year did A. Michelson and E. Morley conduct their experiment to verify the existence of ether?
Answer: 1887.
21) Who in 1939 suggested the name meson for middle-weight particles?
Answer: Homi J. Bhabha.
22) What is the importance of 2nd December 1942?
Answer: The creation of the first controlled chain reaction.
23) Which philosopher conjectured that if the moon did not move, it would fall upon the earth?
Answer: Anaxagoras.
24) Who said, “A bird is an instrument working according to the mathematical laws”?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci.
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