UTPT '10 Sci-tech Quiz Finals

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Under The Peepal Tree 2010

Science and Technology Quiz

FINALS



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Transcript: IT IS WITH GREAT REGRET THAT WE HAVE TO ANNOUNCE THE DEATH ON FRIDAY,

18TH JULY 1952 OF D.N.A HELIX (CRYSTALLINE). DEATH FOLLOWED A PROTRACTED ILLNESS

WHICH AN INTENSIVE COURSE OF BESSELISED INJECTIONS HAD FAILED TO RELIEVE. A

MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD NEXT MONDAY OR TUESDAY. IT IS HOPED THAT DR. M.H.F.

WILKINS WILL SPEAK IN MEMORY OF THE LATE HELIX [BLANK] and Raymond Gosling

Whose name is blanked out on the bottom left?



Letter f rom whom?What was the scheme?



What is being exorcized?



Whose name is blanked out? (Both blanks are different)



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1. Moonshine,Werewolf, Sulphur, Cambridge, Leonidas, Constantine

Fedora releases.

2. Rosalind Franklin

3. Jamshedji Tata and IISc

4. LaplacesDemon

5. Thomas

Huxely

6. Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis,Southwestern Bell, U S West

Bell babies - AT&T Corp.'s local operations were split into

seven independent Regional Bell Operating Companies known

as "Baby Bells."



Dry - 1



What has been blanked

out?



Geo IP/ Geo targeting, the method of determining

the geo location (the physical location) of a websitevisitor and delivering different content to that visitor

based on his or her location.



This anthropological project has been criticized as having been

initiated without appropriate consultation with or regard for the

risks to its subjects, the Indigenous peoples.ID the collaborative project.



Genographic project - aims to map

historical human migration patterns bycollecting and analyzing DNA samples from

hundreds of thousands of people

from around the world.



Having a ____X____ number smaller than 0.1 labels a

substance as thermally thin, and heat can be assumed to beconstant throughout the materials volume. A ___X____

number greater than 0.1 indicates a "thermally thick"

substance and more complicated heat transfer equations

will be required to describe the time-varying temperaturefield within the material body.

On a totally different note, X is also a term used in Arthur

Clarke's Rendevouz with Rama to describe a cyborg in his book.



Biot number



Following the initial success of 1911,___

Conferences have been devoted to outstanding preeminent open problems in both physics and

chemistry. Perhaps the most famous conference

was the 5th edition in October 1927 in

Copenhagen, which featured the famous "God

does not play dice" argument between Einstein

and Bohr.

The conference goes on to this day, with varyingfrequency. ___ ?



Solvay Conferences (Conseils Solvay )



Posters against which controversial company?



Monsanto



Picture shows a guy called Einthoven with his arms in vats of

salt water. this contraption pioneered what?



ECG (ElectroCardiography)



The X benchmark is a program that measures the

floating point performance of computers. It wasnamed after a town in Leicestershire, England. It's

Fortran version, which became the first general

purpose benchmark that set industry standards of

computer system performance.

The Y benchmark is a play on X's name, and was so

named ('Y') as it didn't perform floating point

operations and grew to become representative of

general processor (CPU) performance at it's time. X

and Y?



Whetstone and Dhrystone



What was calculated at the end of all this??



Velocity of light in RigVeda



What is it?



Doomsday Clock



Molten X is used because it is liquid at atmosphere pressure, it provides

an efficient, low-cost medium in which to store thermal energy, its

operating temperatures are compatible with today¶s high pressure and

high temperature steam turbines, and it is non-flammable and nontoxic.X? (Another pic on next slide)



Salt



, , and are parameters representing the interaction

x is assumed to have exponential growth (represented in the

equation by the term x). There is a negative term that is attributed

to interaction with y and this term is proportional to the rate of x

and y interact.

xy represents the growth of y. This term shows again interaction

between x and y. The other term y represents the loss rate

(exponential decay) of y, and it is brought about because of lack of x.

Together these equations are known as Lotke Volterra equations.

These equations depict the relationship between what?



Predator and Prey



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³Standing on the shoulder of giants´



While translating William Cullen's A treatise of

the materia medica into German, SamuelHahnemann came across a passage that dealt

with the treatment of malaria.

He was skeptical about the prescribed treatmentand took "four good drams of Peruvian bark,

twice a day for several days" to attempt to

characterize the action of the quinine-containing

bark, to test the efficacy of the treatment, andreported that he began to experience symptoms

of malaria. What did all this lead to?



Homeopathy.



"Think of a room full of waltzers. Suppose they go round the

room in circles, each circle enclosed within another. Then

imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by

having one pair go clockwise and another pair gocounterclockwise. Then add one more variation; all the dancers

are spinning twirling round and round like tops as they circle the

room, each pair both twirling and circling. But only some of

those that go counterclockwise are twirling counterclockwise.The others are twirling clockwise while circling

counterclockwise. The same is true of those that are dancing

around clockwise: some twirl clockwise, others twirl

counterclockwise.³

Explanation for a concept called ³magic numbers´. Who is doing

the explaining? What is she trying to explain?



Maria Goeppert-Mayer ± the other female Physics

Nobel Awardee (apart fromM

arie Curie) , explainingwhy certain numbers of nucleons in the nucleus of an

atom cause an atom to be extremely stable.



There are two methods ± The Palermo and the Torino

scale. On the Palermo scale, a rating in the range of -2to 0 calls for careful monitoring. On the Torino scale

(pic on next slide), a measure of kinetic energy in

terms of mega-tons of T NT versus probability gives

the same result, on a scale from 1-10. What do boththese measure?



Risk of collision of external object (asteroid/meteor) with

earth.



Y is the hypothetical time-reversal of X, though

theoretical models predict that they look exactly alike

and show similar behaviour towards matter, since

acceleration is invariant during time reversal.

Physicist Schwarzschild predicted X soon after the

theory of relativity, but Y also appeared as part of his

field equations describing a Schwarzschild wormhole.

Y that are not part of a wormhole is doubtful, as they

appear to violate the second law of thermodynamics.



X : Black Hole

Y: White Hole



A book dedicated to a mathematician known for his

eccentricities, some of which included referring to

children as µepsilon¶, because they were small andto music as µnoise¶. Whom is the book dedicated

to?



Paul Erdos, he spoke of "The Book", an imaginary book

in which God had written down the best and most

elegant proofs for mathematical theorems.



Which organization's logo represents the

first vibrational mode of a thin L-shaped

membrane, clamped at the edges, andgoverned by the wave equation (or any of

its products)?



The MathWorks (Matlab or Simulink)

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The Philadelphia Experiment

The USS Elridge - a Cannon

class destroyer escort, the onlyship of the United States Navy to be named for John Eldridge Jr., ahero of the invasion of theSolomon Islands. It was a part of an alleged naval militaryexperiment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, inwhich it was to berendered invisible to humanobservers for a brief period.

Tesla was rumored to be a part of

this experiment.

A movie based on this conspiracytheory ± The PhiladelphiaExperiment



Award given by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research in

the fields of Biological, Earth, 'Atmosphere, Ocean and

Planetary',Physical, Medical, Chemical, Engineering andMathematical Sciences, named after the its founder. Whats the

award?



Bhatnagar Award

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Clips from whose biopic?



Feynman. Movie - Infinity (1996)



Now to what phenomenon did I give primary concern in designing X? It

was wind resistance. Well then! I hold that the curvature of the

monument's four outer edges, which is as mathematical calculationdictated it should be [...] will give a great impression of strength and

beauty, for it will reveal to the eyes of the observer the boldness of the

design as a whole.

Those were the words of Xs designer. The shape of X was therefore

determined by mathematical calculation involving wind resistance.

Several theories of this mathematical calculation have been proposed

over the years, the most recent is a nonlinear integral differential

equation based on counterbalancing the wind pressure on any point on

X with the tension between the construction elements at that point.

Whats X? More f amous for its strength, beauty and boldness.



What ees the concept behind the art?



Ulam S pirals ± Prime numbers tend to occupy the

diagonals when the numbers are arranged in a

square and hence look like a spiral



It may take a little movie knowledge to get this one but

the first time I saw this phone I was waiting to hear it say

³I¶m sorry I can¶t do that Dave´.

The phone looks pretty damn impressive and I like the

idea behind the __ platform, but that thing might some

how eject you into space and kill everyone around you.You know what I¶m talking about.³ What is being spoken

about?



Moto Droid



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BING ± Bing is not google

GNU ± GNU is not UNIX

WINE ± WINE is not emulator

Recursive Acronyms



LVC



Set 1



Set 2



Set 3



Set 4



Set 1



Galilei

number



Decibel



Co-efficient of

friction



Set 2

V ¶ H ff



Van¶t Hoff



Poisson¶s ratio



Mach Number



Set 3



Refractive index



Bond Number



Archimedes Number



Set 4

Fourier Number



Reynolds Number



Power Factor



Dimensionless quantities

[ M0 L0 T0 ]

Answer



Stage 2



ID



ID

The article was written for the Cambridge Mathematical

Journal by a person under the pseudonym P Q R to defend



Journal by a person under the pseudonym P.Q.R, to defend

Fourier when his work was criticized by others



_________ was a German scientist who

served as professor at the university Gottingen.He gained his reputation after the publicationof a book on wave theory and fluidity alongwith his brother at the age of twenty. He is bestknown for his invention of the firstelectromagnetic telegraph along with FriedrichGauss. Possibly his most important work was Atlas des Erdmagnetismus, a series of magnetic maps and it was one of the main

reasons that magnetic observatories were firstset up.

Device by X to measure Y Give me X and Y



Device by X to measure Y. Give me X and Y



Stage 2 ± Scientists with units of measurementnamed after them.

Rolf Maximilan Sievert

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz Lord Kelvin Joule¶s calorimeter to measure heat

capacity.Hence Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Joseph Henry

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