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Trivia Questions

This word, used with "theory" & "mechanics", is from the Latin for "how much"

It's the tendency of a body to stay at rest unless acted on by an outside force

It's compressed to run a pneumatic device like a jackhammer

Type of mechanics illustrated here

The red shift of galaxies & the change in the pitch of a train whistle are examples of this man's effect

In the 1800s scientists proposed a luminiferous ether to explain how this can travel in waves

Parents, the answer to this perennial kids' question is "Due to Rayleigh scattering"

Term first used by James Watt for a unit equivalent to 550 foot-pounds of work per second

Sublimation is the process by which a solid changes into a gas without going through this stage

This branch of physics deals with heat & includes cryogenics, which deals with extremely low temperatures