Scientific Laws Trivia Quiz

Answer:

Here are the actual scientific laws:

Ampere's Law: Electric currents produce magnetic fields. It's also called Oersted's Law, named after the chemist and physicist Hans Christian Ørsted. It basically states that an electric current creates a magnetic field that wraps around it.

Avogadro's Law: Equal volumes of gases, at the same temperature and pressure, contain the same number of molecules. Or, in other words, more gas molecules need more space, and fewer gas molecules need less space, as long as the temperature and pressure stay the same.

Boyle's Law: The pressure and volume of a gas have an inverse relationship when temperature is held constant (PV = k). For example, when you squeeze a gas by increasing pressure, its volume shrinks. When you decrease pressure, its volume expands, as long as the temperature doesn't change.

Charles's Law: The volume and temperature of a gas have a direct relationship when pressure is held constant (V/T = k). In layman's terms: Gases expand when heated and shrink when cooled, as long as the pressure stays the same.

Coulomb's Law: The magnitude of the electrostatic force between two points with electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the magnitudes of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. It is also known as the "Law of Attraction and Repulsion" for charged objects: opposite charges attract, and like charges repel, and the closer they are, the stronger the force.

Dalton's Law (of Partial Pressures): In a mixture of non-reacting gases, the total pressure exerted is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of the individual gases. It says that in a mixture of different gases, each gas acts as if it's the only one there, and the total pressure is just the sum of all their individual pressures.

Faraday's Law (of Induction): A changing magnetic field within a loop of wire induces an electromotive force (voltage) in the wire. That is to say, a changing magnetic field can create an electric voltage, which can make electricity flow in a wire.

Hooke's Law (of Elasticity): The force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance is proportional to that distance (F = -kx). This law defines the spring constant. It's a little bit like saying that the more you stretch or squeeze something, the harder it pushes back. At least, as long as you don't do it too much, which would be when you reach its "elastic limit" whereby it will permanently bend or break and won't spring back to its original shape.

Hubble's Law: The observation in physical cosmology that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distance. In other words, the farther away they are, the faster they are receding. This is the primary evidence for the expansion of the universe. The formula is v = H?d, where v is velocity, d is distance, and H? is the Hubble Constant. So basically, our universe is expanding, and the farther away a galaxy is from us, the faster it is moving away.

Lenz's Law: The direction of the electric current induced in a conductor by a changing magnetic field is such that the magnetic field created by the induced current opposes the initial changing magnetic field. It's a direct consequence of the law of conservation of energy. Which is similar to saying, when you try to change a magnetic field, the resulting electric current will always fight back to stop that change. This is one of the concepts behind what makes magnetic brakes on rollercoasters effective.

Ohm's Law: The voltage across a conductor is directly proportional to the current flowing through it, provided all physical conditions and temperatures remain constant (V=IR). Or, more push or less restriction means more flow. Less push or more restriction means less flow.

Planck's Law: Describes the electromagnetic radiation emitted from a black body in thermal equilibrium at a definite temperature. This law explains that energy is not a smooth, continuous flow, but is instead delivered in tiny, indivisible packets called "quanta."

Snell's Law, also known as the Law of Refraction, is a fundamental formula in physics that describes how light (or other waves) bend when they pass from one transparent medium into another. This is the principle behind why a straw in a glass of water looks bent: the light rays change direction, or "bend," when they pass from one material into another, e.g. from air into water.

Stefan-Boltzmann's Law: The total energy radiated per unit surface area of a black body across all wavelengths per unit time is directly proportional to the fourth power of the black body's thermodynamic temperature. In other words, the hotter an object gets, the more intensely it radiates heat and light, and this increase is enormous.

These are the answer choices that are not scientific laws:

"Burke's Law" was a detective series on ABC-TV from 1963 to 1966, starring Gene Barry as Captain Amos Burke, playing a sophisticated, wealthy police captain of the Los Angeles Police Department's homicide division. There is a real "Burke's Law" in criminal law doctrine stating, "An accomplice's testimony must be corroborated by independent evidence to secure a conviction."

Cole's Law is a homophone for the salad dish made primarily of thinly sliced or shredded raw cabbage, often with a mayonnaise or vinaigrette dressing.

Cunningham's Law is a humorous observation, phrased as a rule of thumb by Ward Cunningham, the inventor of Wiki, in which he describes how many people behave on the internet with regard to information seeking and dissemination: "The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." This "Law" asserts that people are more motivated to correct you than to assist you.

There is no scientific law known as "Darwin's Law." Instead, Charles Darwin is credited with formulating the theory of evolution by natural selection, a fundamental theory, but not a law.

Einstein's contributions are revolutionary indeed but they are expressed as theories and equations, and none are a formally named "law."

"Garrow's Law" was a British television legal drama on BBC One from 2009 to 2011, based on the 18th-century barrister William Garrow, who introduced the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" and revolutionized thorough cross-examination of prosecution witnesses.

"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." That's Murphy's Law, named after Captain Edward A. Murphy, an aerospace engineer who. in the late 1940s found that a sensor had been installed incorrectly by a technician, So Murphy complained, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will.

J. Robert Oppenheimer made important contributions to quantum physics, astrophysics, and nuclear theory, but none became a "law of nature" with his name attached to it.

Parkinson's Law is another comedic observation, commenting on labor management and productivity, essayed by British historian and author Cyril Northcote Parkinson in "The Economist" in 1955. It goes, "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

There is no scientific law formally called "Tesla's Law." The tesla (T), named after Nikola Tesla, is the standard International System of Units (SI) unit for measuring magnetic field strength, but there is no law or fundamental equation credited specifically as "Tesla's Law".