A pitcher throws a baseball to his first-base man. As the ball flies through the air, assuming no air resistance, what is the shape of its trajectory?

Q-1: A pitcher throws a baseball to his first-base man. As the ball flies through the air, assuming no air resistance, what is the shape of its trajectory?

ANSWER: PARABOLA

Q-2:  Name the English physicist who discovered electromagnetic induction?

ANSWER: (MICHAEL) FARADAY

Q-3: What famous Scottish physicist died in the same year that Albert Einstein was born?

ANSWER: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL

Q-4: Who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 for his postulation of the wave nature of electrons?

ANSWER: (PRINCE LOUIS-VICTOR) De BROGLIE

Q-5: Name the three American physicists who received the Nobel Prize in 1972 for their development of a theory of superconductivity.

ANSWER: (JOHN) BARDEEN, (LEON N.) COOPER, (J. ROBERT) SCHRIEFFER

Q-6:  Who first explained the billiard-ball-like collisions photons make with the free electrons in a scattering material? He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for this work.

ANSWER: ARTHUR HOLLY COMPTON

Q-7:  An electron is directly west of a proton. The force on the electron is in what direction: north, south, east, or west?

ANSWER: EAST or TOWARD THE PROTON

Q-8: At a point halfway between two identical point charges, the electric field is equal to:

1) zero
2) half its maximum value
3) its maximum value
4) pointing away from the two charges
ANSWER: 1 -- ZERO

Q-9:  Ten coulombs of positive charge are placed on an irregularly-shaped, solid piece of copper. Once the charge has stopped moving, the electric field inside the copper is:

1) zero
2) changes as one over the radius squared
3) becomes smaller as you approach the center
4) becomes larger as you approach the center
ANSWER: 1 -- ZERO

Q-10:  Ten coulombs of charge are placed on a solid copper sphere. Once the charge has come to rest, the ELECTRIC POTENTIAL inside the sphere is found to be:

1) zero
2) uniform inside the sphere and equal to the electric potential on the surface of the
sphere
3) smaller than the electric potential outside the sphere
4) varying as one over r squared
ANSWER: X -- UNIFORM INSIDE THE SPHERE AND EQUAL TO THE
ELECTRIC POTENTIAL ON THE SURFACE OF THE SPHERE

Q-11: A current of 5 amps passes through a 10 ohm resistor. How many joules of energy will be generated by this resistor in 2 seconds?

ANSWER: 500 JOULES

Q-12:  A charged particle is moving in a UNIFORM magnetic field. If the direction of motion of the charged particle is at right angles to the magnetic field, describe the shape of the charged particle's path.

ANSWER: CIRCULAR or CIRCLE